Boys Quote by Winthrop Mackworth Praed

I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.

— Wislawa Szymborska

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

I was quite a plain boy. I stayed in work and eeked out a living, bit parts on TV, walk-ons in films, repertory companies.

— Nigel Hawthorne

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

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer, and then I got…

— Christopher Walken

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 was a dramatic kid. I remember, I was very young, and once I knew what I wanted to do I, like, created a…

— Jessica Chastain

I became a copy boy. Not for long. I started writing stories.

— Jimmy Breslin

It was at that age that poetry came in search of me.

— Pablo Neruda

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

When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays,…

— Gabrielle Zevin

I've been writing poems and stories since I was about 13.

— Kevin Powers