Started Writing Quotes

209 quotes by 191 authors

When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I… — Otis Blackwell
Springsteen on that record started writing less about having your wind in your hair and turning the radio up and more about being dragged down… — Craig Finn
I'm out here to bomb, period. That's what I started for. I didn't start writing to go to Paris, I didn't start writing to do… — Skeme
I started writing one afternoon when I was twenty, and ever since then I have written every day. At first I had to force myself.… — David Sedaris
I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there — Audre Lorde
Saul Bellow once said, 'A writer is a reader who has moved to emulation' â€” which I think is true. I just started writing and… — Stewart O'Nan
I always felt that nobody was going to understand me, going to understand what I felt about things. I guess that's why I started writing.… — Truman Capote
I just wanted a song to sing, and there came a point where I couldn't sing anything...nobo dy else was writing what I wanted to… — Bob Dylan
Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and… — Tommy Rettig
Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else. — Tobias Wolff
After that, I specifically started writing lyrics. I would like sweat and think and get it all together. — Jim Capaldi
I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of… — Manuel Puig
But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves… — Bryan Ferry
I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard. I started writing every day. I never stopped. — Ray Bradbury
I don't talk about Amy Winehouse as a 'singer.' She's a pioneer. I listened to her endlessly when I started writing. — Laura Mvula
When I'm doing interviews, I'm doing interviews, and when I am writing, I'm writing. I sit there with a musician and I write. It's the… — Lisa Marie Presley
About a year after (my stories began being published), magazine editor George Scithers, suggested to me that since I was so new at being published,… — Barry B. Longyear
I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since. — Sue Grafton
Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise. And so I started writing and drawing at… — Gunter Grass
My influence is probably more from American crime writers than any Europeans. And I hardly read any Scandinavian crime before I started writing myself. I… — Jo Nesbo

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