Like Quote by Dawn Richard

My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff.

— Ishmael Reed

I have no very sophisticated understanding of literary forms. Short stories are shorter than novels, and poems are typically shorter than either, though not…

— Sally Rooney

“The length of novels, poems and stories, is measured by the number of missing words; a thousand pages become one, one becomes a thousand.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

When I started to write a tune, I just wrote the nearest at hand, which was what was happening in my own life.

— Jesse Harris

I'd always been fascinated by boxing and became very engaged with it through my husband, actually. But I started to write about it because…

— Katherine Dunn

I started to write before I went to SUNY Purchase music conservatory. As an audition I submitted what I now think are really awful…

— Regina Spektor

The stories we tell ourselves about ourselves are very often not really what happened. And as I started to write stuff down, I started…

— Damian Barr

When I was young, when I started to write, we were totally convinced that literature was a kind of weapon.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

I started to write songs. And I started to like what I was writing. I think it's a new way for me to express…

— Marion Cotillard

I started to write about science and medicine at the 'Washington Post,' in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.

— Michael Specter

I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.

— Bill Joy

I started to write the song. And I was in Gladewater, Texas, one night with Carl Perkins and I said, I've got a good…

— Johnny Cash