Composing Quote by Bruce Cockburn

I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.

— Ellen Hopkins

I've written poetry since I was a kid. As the years went on, I got into writing stories and screenplays, but I always, always…

— Blake Jenner

I've written poetry since I was in the first grade, and it wasn't until I was a little bit older that I realized poetry…

— Jordin Sparks

Growing up as a kid, I took creative writing classes, and I was always into poetry.

— Ivan Moody

Even though novels were the love of my life, I started off writing poetry. I think because I had a knack for image and…

— Melissa Febos

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.

— Amy Winehouse

I always wanted to write poetry, even when I was very young.

— Ama Ata Aidoo

I always wanted to be some kind of writer - I wrote plays and songs and "books" before I realized living and breathing people…

— Denise Duhamel

The act of song writing and recording became one and the same to me; because I essentially recorded everything I did from the day…

— Adam Goldberg

I guess I started writing poetry and stuff and then decided to set it to music.

— Johnny Flynn

I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry.

— Jeffery Deaver

I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories to novels.…

— Ben Okri