Been Quote by Robert Adamson

I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe.

— Neil Gaiman

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 started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

— David Sedaris

I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30.

— Fred Saberhagen

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

— Ernesto Cardenal

I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.

— Taslima Nasrin

Probably when I was about 16 or 17 I started writing. I wouldn't call it poetry, even though I've referred to it as poetry…

— Aldous Harding

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 always knew that I wanted to be a writer. I think I was six or seven when I learned how to read, and…

— Signe Baumane

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

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

I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.

— Robert Morgan