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I did go through a phase of reading a lot of poetry and getting heavily into philosophy and ended up writing things that weren't…

— Katie Melua

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 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 read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.

— Barry Eisler

I really came to literature through poetry.

— Cheryl Strayed

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

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

— Nicholson Baker

I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was about 30…

— Paul Auster

I'm very much a word-centric writer, and that comes from the literature and the reading that I did as kid and also the films…

— Grace Potter

I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindberg and Ibsen and all those guys. I was…

— Kurt Sutter

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

— Ivan Moody

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

— Wislawa Szymborska