Started Writing Quotes

209 Started Writing quotes by 191 unique authors

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
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

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