Started Writing Quotes

209 Started Writing quotes by 191 unique authors

I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book; I sent it to a publisher and… — Haruki Murakami
When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn't write and thought… — Joyce Carol Oates
I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later. — David Sedaris
I started in business journalism from the outside, so when I started writing about markets and business, I was struck by the fact that markets… — James Surowiecki
I started writing rhymes first and then put it to the music. I figured out I could lock it to the beat better if I… — Ice T
I started writing more with my voice in mind. — Lucinda Williams
I started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn't know if they were good enough yet or anything. — Lucinda Williams
Having listened to great songwriters like James Taylor and Carole King, I felt there was nothing new that was coming out that really represented me… — Amy Winehouse
I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore it. — Neil Young
It's been an objective of mine since I started writing songs to include both intellect and energy. — Greg Graffin
I was a businessman for 16 years of my life, so when I started writing, I wanted to keep my literary identity separate. — Ashwin Sanghi
I don't want to analyze myself or anything, but I think, in fact I know this to be true, that I enter the world through… — Aaron Sorkin
A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don't know why, but it was one of the only things… — Jonathan Safran Foer
I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real, to see day lilies and swimming pools, loyalty… — Alice Hoffman
Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started… — Bill Moyers
And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt… — Tennessee Williams
I started writing because I decided I was too old to play pretend in the backyard. Then I found that I could create those imaginary… — Veronica Roth
You should really stay true to your own style. When I first started writing, everybody said to me, 'Your style just isn't right because you… — Jude Deveraux
One night a friend lent me a book of short stories by Franz Kafka. I went back to the pension where I was staying and… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real.... Once I got to my desk, once I… — Alice Hoffman
I always sang. I wanted to be in a band with my sister, and I was, at 11. At 12, I started writing seriously, and… — Cyndi Lauper
I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country. — Laura Bell Bundy
From the moment I started writing raps, I was always aware of the pressure. I always wanted to live up to how huge Snoop got,… — Kendrick Lamar
I started playing guitar when I was 6 or 7 years old, and I think that, within a week of getting my first guitar, I… — Robby Benson
I became a copy boy. Not for long. I started writing stories. — Jimmy Breslin

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