Started Writing Quotes
209 quotes by 192 authors
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I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.
— Octavia Butler
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I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff.
— David Byrne
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When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there.
— Piers Anthony
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When I first started writing, I was living in England and I had that uniquely English sense of sarcasm, which has definitely seemed to have…
— Jane Green
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On the day my daughter was born, I started writing a book for her. The plan was that, over the course of her life, I'd…
— Brad Meltzer
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It helps when 1 can send the children off to their fathers so I can support my new book with a national publicity tour. I…
— Meg Tilly
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I started writing novels while an undergraduate student, in an attempt to make sense of the city of Edinburgh, using a detective as my protagonist.…
— Ian Rankin
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I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. ... I'm probably writing music now for the same…
— Billy Joel
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I just feel like it's easier to co-write sometimes, especially if you have chemistry with somebody. It kind of takes all the pressure off of…
— Miranda Lambert
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The thing I'm writing now, I have various characters, and all of a sudden, out of nowhere, this couple dies. And they have a daughter.…
— Sandra Dallas
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['Fire and Rain'] is sort of almost uncomfortably close. Almost confessional. The reason I could write a song like that at that point, and probably…
— James Taylor
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As I started writing about loss and grief, I was taking what felt unmanageable and using my songwriting, my sense of poetry and discipline, to…
— Rosanne Cash
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I stopped dying the moment I started writing
— Arnon Grunberg
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I started writing cheating songs when I was too young to have any idea what I was writing about - broken hearts and things like…
— Willie Nelson
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I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975.
— Eric Bogosian
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I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.
— Billy Joel
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My kids don't really like when I sing for some reason...but they like when I play guitar. So I started writing songs just playing guitar…
— David Pajo
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I started writing every day. I never stopped.
— Ray Bradbury
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I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.
— Amy Winehouse
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I dunno, when I started writing really I was like, filling out applications and stuff real early. Last name first, first name last, sex... occasionally,…
— Tom Waits
Who Wrote These Started Writing Quotes
192 authors contributed a total of 209 Started Writing Quotes, led by these top contributors: