About Quote by Cliff Curtis

I started writing poetry when I was six. I had this teacher who didn't believe the poems I'd bring in were mine because they…

— Mariah Carey

I also started writing songs because I had this burning activity in my heart and had to express myself.

— Annie Lennox

I began to write poetry when I was about four years old. In other words, I've always been writing poetry.

— Ernesto Cardenal

Probably when I was about 16 or 17 I started writing. I wouldn't call it poetry, even though I've referred to it as poetry…

— Aldous Harding

I've been writing poems and stories since I was about 13.

— Kevin Powers

If you're going to write, write one poem all your life, let nobody read it, and then burn it. This is very young thinking,…

— Jack Nicholson

I always wanted to write poetry, even when I was very young.

— Ama Ata Aidoo

When I was about twenty-one, I published a few poems. Maybe I wrote a couple of stories before, but I really began to write…

— Grace Paley

I was 14 or 15 when I discovered poetry, and I pretty much stopped writing prose until Master of Reality.

— John Darnielle

In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.

— Danielle Steel

I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.

— Elizabeth Edwards

Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was…

— Harry Mathews