Effort Quote by Eavan Boland

I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults.

— Rick Riordan

I began to write in an enclosed, self-confident literary culture. The poet's life stood in a burnished light in the Ireland of that time.…

— Eavan Boland

So many writers live their whole lives in rooms. You can be too civilised in the environment you have around you, too oriented towards…

— Lawrence Osborne

I thought I was a pretty good writer, but I didn't have anything to write about. I wanted to go out in the world,…

— Shane Smith

I don't know if I had ever found my place in the world until I fully committed to being a writer.

— Jami Attenberg

I began writing and became attached to writing at an early age. I began by writing poetry and experimenting with dialogues: modest plays, in…

— Hassan Blasim

While we were promoting 'Wide Open Spaces,' we set aside time to write. We went on several writing retreats where nobody could get hold…

— Martie Maguire

I always wanted to be some kind of writer - I wrote plays and songs and "books" before I realized living and breathing people…

— Denise Duhamel

Once I started writing all the time and interacting with poets, I made a conscious decision to identify myself as a poet. It's funny…

— Tracy K. Smith

I became a writer because during several of the most important years of my life, writing seemed to me to be the most unreal,…

— William Saroyan

I'm truly an outsider in the poetry world. When I started writing, I was trying to move my poems away from modernist lines.

— Richard Grossman