Started Writing Quotes

209 quotes by 191 authors

I started writing morning pages just to keep my hand in, you know, just because I was a writer and I didn't know what else… — Julia Cameron
There's certainly more new SF available than when I started writing. That means there's also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good… — Alan Dean Foster
I moved to New York in the 1970s and started writing when I was at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. — Jenny Holzer
I can't remember why or how I started writing, but I think it was always a way of making sense of the world. — Andrea Arnold
When I started writing, there was nothing about zombies. It was all teen movies, which to me are scarier than zombies, but that's another story. — Max Brooks
I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send them out. — Candace Bushnell
I didn't start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my hometown. I started… — Julianna Baggott
When I started writing it was kind of hard getting people to do my stuff. They' say they couldn't do my style. — Otis Blackwell
When I came out of service, the first couple of releases didn't really hit so I just took a little hiatus and sat down to… — William Bell
Well, I started writing songs about three years ago when I learned to play the guitar, but I've been singing since I was eleven. — Colbie Caillat
I started writing songs at age 15. — Vince Clarke
I started writing the one-sentence stories when I was translating 'Swann's Way.' There were two reasons. I had almost no time to do my own… — Lydia Davis
When I started writing 'A Million Little Pieces,' I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for, and… — James Frey
I started writing stories in my spare time. — Ken Follett
I started writing and photographing for different publications and finally ended up being the correspondent in South Asia, for the Geneva-based Journal de Geneve, which… — Francois Gautier
My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs. — Joan Armatrading
I started writing 'Brick Lane' when my children were two years and five months old. We were on holiday in the north of England when… — Monica Ali
I didn't originally intend on writing a book. I started writing during the day to feel like I was accomplishing something creative. — Rachel Dratch
I started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting closer. I had no idea how to write… — Amy Hempel
I started writing sketches with Dennis Kelly, who I ended up writing 'Pulling' with. We entered a BBC competition and did quite well, then started… — Sharon Horgan

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