Academic Quote by Peter Straub

I began writing fiction because it was the only way to tell all the intricacies of a real-life spy story.

— David Ignatius

As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of book history.…

— Robert Darnton

Every time I've had to do journalistic investigations, I've cursed, but later I discovered that it had helped me enormously with writing fiction. It's…

— Italo Calvino

When writing fiction, you only have to know enough to be convincing on the page. I mean really convincing, of course - but you…

— Simon Mawer

I began writing as an experimental writer.

— Sandra Cisneros

The Lampoon started in 1970, and I began writing freelance for them around the end of 1971, and then all through '72. They hired…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Writing doesn't leave much time for hobbies, unless you consider that I began writing as a hobby and have made the hobby into a…

— Nelson DeMille

My assumption when I began writing was that you were never going to make any money. And you were never going to reach everyone.…

— Dorothy Allison

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 writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel in my spare time, unable to…

— Karl Marlantes

“what I knew that morning in March 1977 as we settled around the conference table. I wasn’t even sure how these guys reached us,…

— Phil Knight

“I began writing late; my first articles and stories were published after I was thirty, and I was motivated by money. Money is not…

— M.V. Carey