Started Writing Quotes

209 Started Writing quotes by 191 unique authors

I just started trying to figure out how to write [something] which was unlike anything anybody had ever seen, and once I felt like I… — James Frey
There have always been jokes all over our songs; I originally started writing lyrics to make my friends crack a smile, which is difficult. — Alex Turner
I started writing when I was about thirteen. — Al Purdy
I started writing because there's an absence of things I was familiar with or that I dreamed about. One of my senses of anger is… — Ntozake Shange
I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing… — A. J. Jacobs
Critics stopped being relevant when they stopped writing to inform and contextualize, and when they started writing to signal who they are, to display their… — Tucker Max
I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true. — Jean M. Auel
I started writing songs when I was 10. It was a natural way to express myself as a kid. It wasn't until I started listening… — Kimbra
As far as the writing goes, I started telling stories as soon as I could talk, and started writing them down as soon as I… — Sarah Zettel
Airplanes”. “It was cool to meet people that liked music as much as I did. As soon as we started writing together, it was pretty… — Hayley Williams
I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford. — Taiye Selasi
When I started writing a business column 15 years ago, I knew I'd found the perfect job for myself. As a columnist I could pick… — Allan Sloan
I'm removed in my real life, and unable to express certain things face to face. So I have always found myself in this fantasy world.… — Jenny Lewis
I started writing for the theatre because I hated it. — Eugene Ionesco
When I first started writing plays I couldn't write good dialogue because I didn't respect how black people talked. I thought that in order to… — August Wilson
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' — 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

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