Feelings Quote by Sylvia Plath

When I was ten, my mother told me to write down my feelings. I eventually started writing a book. I wish I'd kept the…

— Franny Armstrong

The first thing I remember writing was a poem - about a princess who sat on a hill and sang all day - when…

— Ruth Jones

The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.

— Marguerite Young

I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child,…

— Rita Dove

I started to write things down, as a very young child, wanting to find a way to remember - to keep close, somehow -…

— Anne Michaels

When I was 8, I was reading a book in which it was snowing. When I looked outside, I expected there to be snow…

— Candace Bushnell

When I was nine, the teacher asked us to write a piece about our village fete. He read mine in class. I was encouraged…

— Eugene Ionesco

Instead of noting down things I’m unlikely to forget, I will write a poem. Even if I have never written one before and even…

— Paulo Coelho

“I seem to grow more acutely conscious of the swift passage of time as I grow older. When I was small, days and hours…

— Sylvia Plath

When I was a little kid I thought like a little kid, but now I'm five I know everything

— Emma Donoghue

I started writing poetry when I was six. I had this teacher who didn't believe the poems I'd bring in were mine because they…

— Mariah Carey

I wanted to spend all my time writing poetry. But when I had children I couldn't do that anymore.

— Robert Bly