Started Writing Quotes

209 quotes by 191 authors

When I started writing my stories, I thought that not only nobody outside my language, but nobody outside my neighbourhood would get them. — Etgar Keret
I started writing songs when I was eight. — Wiz Khalifa
I realized that I started writing songs to make people feel how I felt, rather than just making them feel something. That's not the way… — Marilyn Manson
I think no more than a week after I started writing I ran into the first block. It's hard to describe it in a way… — Tennessee Williams
. . . you [film critics] always overstress the value of images. You judge films in the first place by their visual impact instead of… — Orson Welles
I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them. — Karen Thompson Walker
I write on a computer, but I've run the complete gambit. When I was very young, I wrote with a ballpoint pen in school notebooks.… — Charles de Lint
My parents read to me a lot as a kid, and I started writing very early, probably spurred on by Aesop's fables. Then they gave… — Jeff VanderMeer
You can write when you're dyslexic, you just can't read it. But I started writing short stories as a child and I found the short… — Billy Bob Thornton
When I started writing after my career as an actor, I knew that that other life in the film industry would be pulled into my… — James Franco
When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn't exist, and we didn't need to worry about foreign websites… — Al Franken
When I was a kid, my favorite movies were the George Pal version of 'War Of The Worlds,' 'Them,' and 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers.'… — David Gerrold
I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists. — William Gibson
I'm older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class in composition, essays,… — Joan Collins
My heroes were Eddie Van Halen - especially after Van Halen I, II, III, and IV - Randy Rhoads, Ace Frehley and dudes like that.… — Dimebag Darrell
I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays. — Lena Dunham
As soon as I started writing, other writers stopped wanting me acting in their shows - maybe they thought I was going to rewrite them. — Harvey Fierstein
I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier. — Mark Haddon
I started writing when I was around 6. I say 'writing,' but it was really just making up stuff! I started writing and doing my… — Hunter Hayes
I read everything I could find in English - Twain, Henry James, Hemingway, really everything. And then after a while I started writing shorter pieces… — Aleksandar Hemon

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