"At first, writing for The New Yorker was……" — David Sedaris

More First Writing Quotes

This quote is filed under First Writing Quotes, one of 12 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what… — Elizabeth Bowen
• That first writing session, what Dan Hill calls a creative blind date, is always a real challenge, and you bring… — Cynthia Weil
• By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember… — Albert Maltz
• The first writing of the human being was drawing, not writing. — Marjane Satrapi
• I was not going to use writing for advertising or journalism. I would tend bar, load trucks, chauffeur - do… — Dennis Lehane
• You have to be very brave in that first writing session. — Barry Mann
• When I was first writing, I used to sit at the piano and play songs - I'd write one or… — Kate Bush
• The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars… — Theodore Sturgeon
• I gave Joss Whedon and Judd Apatow their first writing jobs, as well as many other untried writers who went… — Roseanne Barr
• My first writing job was with a company called TheatreworksUSA. — Robert Lopez
• When I was first writing, I was writing mostly about sporting events, which was really what my assignments were. I… — John Tesh

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