Firsts Quote by Nicholson Baker

So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by…

— Nicholson Baker

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

— Ivan Moody

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've learned a lot as a writer about poetry.

— Jacqueline Woodson

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

— Jeffery Deaver

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

— Peter Heller

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

— Ama Ata Aidoo

Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books.

— Francine Prose

I always knew that was what I wanted to do - to write, particularly poetry.

— Derek Walcott

I've written poetry since I was a kid. As the years went on, I got into writing stories and screenplays, but I always, always…

— Blake Jenner

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 learned to write by writing.

— Neil Gaiman