Inspirational Quote by Margaret Atwood

I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.

— Elizabeth Edwards

I always wanted to write poetry, even when I was very young.

— Ama Ata Aidoo

Probably when I was about 16 or 17 I started writing. I wouldn't call it poetry, even though I've referred to it as poetry…

— Aldous Harding

I became a poet at the age of sixteen. I did not intend to do it. It was not my fault.

— Margaret Atwood

I was 14 or 15 when I discovered poetry, and I pretty much stopped writing prose until Master of Reality.

— John Darnielle

You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.

— Erica Jong

In high school, in 1956, at the age of sixteen, we were not taught "creative writing." We were taught literature and grammar. So no…

— Margaret Atwood

I was completely devoted to reading and books from the age of seven. It took until I was 18 to have the confidence to…

— Christopher Koch

I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry.

— Jeffery Deaver

I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my…

— Maya Angelou

I was lucky to have read a lot of poetry when I was younger; it helped me to remember a way to write.

— Benjamin Clementine

I began to write poetry when I was about four years old. In other words, I've always been writing poetry.

— Ernesto Cardenal