Accepted Quote by Siri Hustvedt

I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry.

— Jeffery Deaver

I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter…

— Justin Townes Earle

I've always written. There's a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the…

— Maya Angelou

I've written poetry since I was a kid. As the years went on, I got into writing stories and screenplays, but I always, always…

— Blake Jenner

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 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

Even though novels were the love of my life, I started off writing poetry. I think because I had a knack for image and…

— Melissa Febos

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 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've written poetry most of my life.

— Julia Michaels

I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years.

— Frederick Busch

Literature has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I can't think back before a time that I didn't…

— Alexandra Adornetto