Able Quote by Mos Def

I studied piano and viola and voice in high school and music composition in college. For many years before I became an author I…

— Sarah Weeks

I've been writing since I was five years old. I used to write poetry, and I loved to rhyme.

— Gabriella Wilson

I started writing rhymes in fact when I was 11 or 12 years old. I was actually into hip hop before anything else.

— Jay Sean

Writing, for me, really started in the '70s as a young child. I used to read a lot of nursery rhymes, and I learned…

— Gza

My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.

— Dolly Parton

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

— Ama Ata Aidoo

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 used to do poetry in elementary school. I used to just write.

— Denzel Curry

I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape.

— Del Shannon

I wrote my first rhymes around 8th grade. After serving a year in juvenile detention, I decided to pursue my career as an artist.

— Yukmouth

I started doing music when I was thirteen; I actually started writing my first rhymes.

— Kendrick Lamar

I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.

— Saul Williams