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I never started writing because I wanted to write myself stuff. It was really more that I had these stories to tell, and I…

— Josh Lawson

Writing wasn't easy to start. After I finally did it, I realized it was the most direct contact possible with the part of myself…

— Virpi Hameen-Anttila

I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to…

— Alice Walker

The reason I started writing was because I was a little kid in San Diego who was getting beaten up by her dad and…

— Dorianne Laux

I started writing when I was a journalist. But every time I sat down to write a novel or a story, I ended up…

— Damian Barr

I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day,…

— Daniel Pinkwater

I've just always written, and always considered myself a writer. I wrote my first story when I was five. There was nothing else I…

— Jami Attenberg

I thought of myself as a writer for years before I got around to writing anything.

— E. L. Doctorow

I knew I wanted to be a writer. Where I came from, no one was a writer. I came from Long Island, and everyone…

— Howard Gordon

I became a writer out of the desire to express myself.

— Pankaj Kapur

Eventually, I realised that I wanted to try to create something myself, and that's what writing novels is. Not because I wanted to put…

— Chris Pavone

I did not always know I would be a writer. Until I had a room of my own, I did not write much at…

— Marge Piercy