Felt Quote by Grace Cavalieri

Growing up as a kid, I took creative writing classes, and I was always into poetry.

— Ivan Moody

I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry.

— Jeffery Deaver

Even though novels were the love of my life, I started off writing poetry. I think because I had a knack for image and…

— Melissa Febos

I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories to novels.…

— Ben Okri

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've written poetry since I was a kid. As the years went on, I got into writing stories and screenplays, but I always, always…

— Blake Jenner

When I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.

— Nicholson Baker

I began to imitate what I was reading, and I started to become a poet, even though what I was writing were not good…

— Edward Hirsch

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

— Ama Ata Aidoo

I was an English major, and I always wrote poems.

— Mat Kearney

I really came to literature through poetry.

— Cheryl Strayed

I have been writing poetry for a long time now. I started writing in my school days.

— Kapil Sibal