Although Quote by Nicholson Baker

When I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.

— Nicholson Baker

I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with…

— Shelby Foote

I began to imitate what I was reading, and I started to become a poet, even though what I was writing were not good…

— Edward Hirsch

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

— Jeffery Deaver

I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative language, which…

— Jesmyn Ward

I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.

— Wislawa Szymborska

I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the…

— William Faulkner

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

— John Darnielle

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

— Ivan Moody

I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories to novels.…

— Ben Okri

I had hoped to be a poet, and for a long time I tried to write poetry. My first published pieces were poems.

— Norman Lock