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I remember once giving my dad some drawings and writings and said, 'If you could just give these to the publisher, that would be…

— Sally Hawkins

I published, privately, a collection of my serious poetry I had written over the years. I only published 50 copies, which I gave to…

— Tom Glazer

I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.

— Jim Harrison

I wrote for my high school and college newspapers. It was my only creative outlet in those days.

— Soupy Sales

My first book of poems was published privately in 1949. That was my mother. The book was '25 Poems.' It cost 200 dollars.

— Derek Walcott

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

— David Sedaris

At the age of 10, I had my first piece published in what was known as the 'Junior Post,' which was part of the…

— Joanna Coles

I've been writing poems and stories since I was about 13.

— Kevin Powers

From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.

— Benjamin Franklin

When I was nine, the teacher asked us to write a piece about our village fete. He read mine in class. I was encouraged…

— Eugene Ionesco

I didn't write professionally at first. It took me nine years to get anything published. At the beginning I mostly wrote picture books, which…

— Gail Carson Levine

I was writing my first book when I was in college. I was a teenager.

— Jenny Han