Biographies Quote by Peter Ackroyd

I wanted to be a poet. I wrote from ages 15 to 22, but I left it because I discovered, and fell in love with, cinema.

— Sebastian Lelio

I really wanted to be a poet - until I realized that I really didn't have what it took to be a poet.

— Celeste Ng

At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.

— Walter Kirn

I've always wanted to be a poet at the beginning. I would look at my grandparents' books and my parents' books. And in my…

— Mark Leyner

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

— Peter Heller

I wanted to be a poet. I had a really romantic idea about what that would mean. My parents knew some poets, and I…

— Lena Dunham

I wanted to be a writer for a while. I was an excellent child writer. I won multiple poetry contests. I was published at…

— Aya Cash

I have decided to be a poet. My father said there isn't a suitable career structure for poets and no pensions and other boring…

— Sue Townsend

I was nine when I first knew I wanted to be a writer, in particular, a poet.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

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

— Norman Lock

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

— Ama Ata Aidoo