Beautiful Quote by Katie Piper

I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.

— Karen Thompson Walker

My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.

— Tao Lin

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

— Toni Morrison

Every decade of my life I attempted to write a novel. But I had nothing to say. I was far too self-absorbed, and now…

— Louise Penny

“Becoming a writer is a lifelong journey. It cannot be learned in a day or even a month or a year. We will never…

— Shanda Trofe Write from the Heart

I became a writer because during several of the most important years of my life, writing seemed to me to be the most unreal,…

— William Saroyan

What I write is emotionally honest and truthful as the human experience can be, to make people feel less alone, or at least that's…

— Mike Birbiglia

“Slowly I discovered that writing was my way of coping with chaos and my cry of freedom, my homage to beauty. Because stories have…

— Vittorio Vandelli

I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull…

— Iris Chang

When I was ten, my mother told me to write down my feelings. I eventually started writing a book. I wish I'd kept the…

— Franny Armstrong

The first book was my first attempt at writing full-length prose.

— Neil Simon

I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real, to see day lilies and swimming pools,…

— Alice Hoffman