Courses Quote by William Saroyan

From when I was a kid I wanted to write. It was so important to me that I was writing my own material.

— Emeli Sande

When I started writing, I thought nobody would understand the things that I liked. Then I began getting a lot of letters from people…

— Novala Takemoto

I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there

— Audre Lorde

I never thought about writing. I was married young, I was still in college, as we did then, and I had two babies before…

— Judy Blume

I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that…

— Naguib Mahfouz

I dunno, when I started writing really I was like, filling out applications and stuff real early. Last name first, first name last, sex...…

— Tom Waits

I've just always written, and always considered myself a writer. I wrote my first story when I was five. There was nothing else I…

— Jami Attenberg

I haven't had the time to do a lot of writing. But nothing's really changed about me. It's just my day-to-day activities have changed,…

— D'Angelo

The reason I started writing was because I was a little kid in San Diego who was getting beaten up by her dad and…

— Dorianne Laux

I wrote before I could write. I got my hands on a journal, maybe a hand-me-down; I had three older siblings. My first entries…

— Julianna Baggott

The only reason I write at all is because I am going through, and growing through, something in my life I want to share…

— Daphne Oz

Writing wasn't easy to start. After I finally did it, I realized it was the most direct contact possible with the part of myself…

— Virpi Hameen-Anttila