Began Quote by George Murray

I'm not a poet. So the writing process is a difficult one for me.

— Billy Squier

I was always a writer, by which I mean I was always scribbling away, doing something with pen and paper.

— Simon Van Booy

So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by…

— Nicholson Baker

I may not have become a good writer, but I managed to make a living out of writing.

— Ruskin Bond

Writing wasn't just a form of expression. It was a form of pathology by embarking on spoken word over and over and over again…

— Amanda Gorman

I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.

— Len Wein

I was writing poems as I was walking. I was able to take that restlessness, that nomadic distraction, and use that distraction in the…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with…

— Shelby Foote

I am not a writer except when I write.

— Juan Carlos Onetti

I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years.

— Frederick Busch

I was writing since I can remember - I just didn't know it was poetry yet, or that writing could be a career.

— Amanda Gorman

I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays.

— Lena Dunham