Also Quote by Nathaniel Philbrick

I wrote a lot of poetry that was based on stories of the sea and I was really inspired by that.

— Ellie Goulding

Sailing has given me some of the most pleasant and exciting moments of my life. It also has taught me something of the courage,…

— John F. Kennedy

Sailing became one of the mainstreams of my life. I suppose my father was an influence. I remember seeing a photo of him at…

— David Crosby

I began just writing poems and then fell in love with the form.

— Simone Muench

I grew up loving music and being super involved in church choir and school musicals and such, but when I started writing is when…

— Kelsea Ballerini

My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime.

— Etgar Keret

I grew up in a sailing family. My dad lived for sailing, and when we moved to Canada when I was a child, he…

— Daria Werbowy

My first love was reading, which inspired me to write.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

— Pat Conroy

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

— Kevin Powers

I always wrote. I wrote from when I was 12. That was therapeutic for me in those days. I wrote things to get them…

— Carrie Fisher

I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that…

— Naguib Mahfouz