Constant Quote by Mark Haddon

I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be…

— Alice Walker

It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much tougher matter.

— Brian Aldiss

It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating ones own creativity - thats a much tougher matter.

— Brian Aldiss

I really wanted to be a poet - until I realized that I really didn't have what it took to be a poet.

— Celeste Ng

I always wanted to be some kind of writer - I wrote plays and songs and "books" before I realized living and breathing people…

— Denise Duhamel

I wanted to be a writer for a while. I was an excellent child writer. I won multiple poetry contests. I was published at…

— Aya Cash

I want to be a poet, from head to toe, living and dying by poetry.

— Federico Garcia Lorca

I've always wanted to be a poet at the beginning. I would look at my grandparents' books and my parents' books. And in my…

— Mark Leyner

I love being a writer. I am very lucky my life's ambition turned out to be just as much fun as I thought it…

— J. K. Rowling

There's always some reason not to be writing and I regret the times I give in to that, because then writing feels strange -…

— Joan Larkin

I'm lucky enough to occasionally be able to do something I love - write poems - and unlucky enough that what I love confuses…

— Mary Ruefle

I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how to. I don't…

— Aleksandar Hemon