Books Quote by Paul Auster

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

When I was about twenty-one, I published a few poems. Maybe I wrote a couple of stories before, but I really began to write…

— Grace Paley

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

— Ivan Moody

I was completely devoted to reading and books from the age of seven. It took until I was 18 to have the confidence to…

— Christopher Koch

I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my…

— Maya Angelou

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

— John Darnielle

I began to write poetry when I was about four years old. In other words, I've always been writing poetry.

— Ernesto Cardenal

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

— Nicholson Baker

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

Even though novels were the love of my life, I started off writing poetry. I think because I had a knack for image and…

— Melissa Febos