Began Quote by Helen Dunmore Download Open image “Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children.” — Helen Dunmore ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Began Came Children Fiction Later Quite Short Short stories Stories While
The first fiction I ever wrote was short stories. I was writing short stories in my late teens and early twenties, and I think… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
I began writing fictional stories and little screenplays when I was in fifth grade. — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
I was really into writing short fiction and also photography when I was a kid. — Sean Durkin Copy Share Image
Even as a little kid, I told lots of stories, and I wrote them down, and I loved reading fiction and fantasy. — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books. — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
I didn't really start to write until I was almost 30, and I started with the short stories. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I started writing when I was 11. In my late teens, I was writing short stories of every conceivable type and sent them to… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures painted on every face. And each face is also… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
Reread, rewrite, reread, rewrite. If it still doesn't work, throw it away. It's a nice feeling, and you don't want to be cluttered with… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
“The word 'personal' is one of my aversions. Personal loan. Personal hygiene. Personal safety. It's only a way of wrapping up bad news that… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. A big bouncy pram with… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
“Dad was alive. I believed Conor, but I still didn't really know it. But now I do.” — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into. — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
“Fear of this order is not an emotion. It is like a virus overwhelming every cell of his body, while his mind struggles to… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
I could start with Mandelstam, who was a huge influence on my early writing. — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint. — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
“It seemed to me that there was a self-interest hidden in the core of all of us, which cooled us when we contemplated any… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
When I was 13, I began relaxing my hair, and that meant when I turned 18 it began to crack and fall off, and… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
We began intercepting Japanese radio transmissions, which indicated the two forces were very close to each other. We found out later that we were… — Jack Adams Copy Share Image
I didn't have any role models. I really thought I was doomed to this loveless, lonely life. I didn't know any gay people until… — Bryan Batt Copy Share Image
I began with small roles in successful movies like 'No Country For Old Men' by the Coen brothers; but it was 'The Last Exorcism'… — Caleb Landry Jones Copy Share Image
When the 2008 victory of Barack Obama and the defeat of grumpy old John McCain began looking, um, inevitable, I started fielding inquiries about… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
I was a photographer. That's how I began my career, behind the camera. — Shweta Tripathi Copy Share Image
The work-family divide is the biggest issue for American women. But in some ways it's amazing how adjusted society has become to it. In… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
I often get asked, 'Is the book dead?' It hasn't happened yet. It's different than music. Music was always meant to be pure sound… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
Watergate got us to think of leaders as mere mortals. America began to think of itself in a very different way - I would… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41. — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of book history.… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
