Became Quote by Jimmy Breslin

I would dream of going up to the 'New York Times' and asking them if I could please be a copy boy or let…

— Frank McCourt

I had been writing for the 'Late Show' for about four years when I started writing short stories. I had a blast writing the…

— Jill Davis

It was tricky [to write about Israelis], because everyone has an opinion about the Arab - Israeli conflict, and when I first started writing…

— Molly Antopol

When I started writing my stories, I thought that not only nobody outside my language, but nobody outside my neighbourhood would get them.

— Etgar Keret

When I was young, I wanted to be a writer or painter. I was always writing stories, and I excelled at drawing. My teachers…

— Bat for Lashes

I started writing stories at a young age, but not once did it occur to me that I could grow up to be a…

— Jenny Han

I'm not so presumptuous to feel that they're gonna get it right away, get exactly what I have in mind. I hope that they'll…

— Faith Ringgold

I enjoyed writing stories whenever there was call to do it at school, and started writing bad poetry when I was doing my GCSEs…

— Tom Fletcher

I started writing stories in my spare time.

— Ken Follett

I started writing stories when I was 9 or 10. I wrote my first screenplay-type document when I was 14.

— Cary Fukunaga

I think, when I started writing songs, my voice just became another tool. It wasn't something that I was going to try desperately to…

— Laura Mvula

When something original works, then everyone wants to copy it. But if you're trying to do something that no one's ever seen before it's…

— Chris Carter