Bits Quote by Sylvia Plath

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

— Ernesto Cardenal

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 started earning a living as a poet rather early on.

— Wislawa Szymborska

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

— Jeffery Deaver

I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to…

— Alice Walker

I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be…

— Alice Walker

Growing up as a kid, I took creative writing classes, and I was always into poetry.

— Ivan Moody

So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by…

— Nicholson Baker

I've been writing since I was five years old. I used to write poetry, and I loved to rhyme.

— Gabriella Wilson

From the beginning. I was a poem-writing child. I wrote little novels in my composition book when I was eight, nine years old.

— Joan Larkin

I began writing and became attached to writing at an early age. I began by writing poetry and experimenting with dialogues: modest plays, in…

— Hassan Blasim