Started Writing Quotes

209 quotes by 192 authors

I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between… — Gavin Bryars
I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear. — John Thomas Sladek
The world has gotten smaller and more accessible since I first started writing in the 70's. — Nelson DeMille
I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbean and I just started writing 'Bridget Jones' to get some money, to finance this… — Helen Fielding
I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe. — Neil Gaiman
I suppose I started writing seriously at 16 years old. I thought I wrote a novel at 16 and sent it to New York! They… — Ernest Gaines
The reason I started writing movies was because I kept getting parts that I just kind of stepped into. I didn't have to do a… — Scott Caan
When I got a little older, I started writing for the high school newspaper, 'The Maroon Wave,' and that's when I fell in love with… — Jeannette Walls
When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary… — Paul Theroux
I started writing seriously when I was a teenager, around 14 years old. — Marie Lu
When I started writing this blog more than years ago, it was in response to traditional media's habit of twisting interviews to fit the headlines… — Mark Cuban
The Pleasure Seekers eventually turned into Cradle, when we started writing our own material. My younger sister Nancy was brought in as singer and I… — Suzi Quatro
There came this point where I sat down with all my notebooks and I had to start to write, when I thought: this whole notion… — David Simon
I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30. — Fred Saberhagen
When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very… — Ben Marcus
When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and… — Gabrielle Zevin
I would also argue that there is a good chance that an outline will help you stave off any onslaught of writer's block. Let me… — Terry Brooks
Writing anything is terribly hard but, alas for me, because I am addicted, a heck of a lot of fun. I often am sorry I… — Judy Collins
I just started writing for my own amusement and occasionally singing in little clubs around Los Angeles. Then I wrote 'The Rose,' and through a… — Amanda McBroom
I hadn't played any music since freshman year of college, more than thirty years ago, so I had to relearn everything. I started writing songs.… — Nicholson Baker

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