Cinema Quote by Sebastian Lelio

I wanted to be a poet when I was 20; I had no interest in fiction or biography and precious little interest in history,…

— Peter Ackroyd

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

— Peter Heller

In high school, I wanted to be an actress. Until I got to college and took some creative writing courses. Then I decided I…

— Meg Cabot

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'm an actress, primarily. I love to write poetry. I've been writing poetry since I was 12 years old.

— Masiela Lusha

I'd wanted to be a writer and when I came back to New York worked as a musician too, but I found my writing…

— Jim Jarmusch

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

— Walter Kirn

When I was about 14 or 15 I decided to become a writer and never for a moment since have I wanted to do anything else.

— Tobias Wolff

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

— Ama Ata Aidoo

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

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

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 had originally planned to do musical theatre and be on Broadway, but then my love for poetry also set in. Once that happened,…

— Khalid