Book Quote by Mark Leyner

I wanted to be a poet when I was 20; I had no interest in fiction or biography and precious little interest in history,…

— Peter Ackroyd

I always wanted to be a writer. I was writing poetry when I was 6.

— Peter Heller

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 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

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

At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.

— Walter Kirn

I was nine when I first knew I wanted to be a writer, in particular, a poet.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I wanted to be a poet. I had a really romantic idea about what that would mean. My parents knew some poets, and I…

— Lena Dunham

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

— Ama Ata Aidoo

I've always wanted to be a writer ever since I was in kindergarten, so that was ultimately what I wanted to do with my…

— Angela Yee

I've wanted to be a writer since I was seven, but I didn't grow up in family where people aspired to live as writers.

— Jacqueline Woodson

Growing up as a kid, I took creative writing classes, and I was always into poetry.

— Ivan Moody