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“I started writing letters home to my mother, saying that I wanted to come home, grandma won't let me sing.”

Writing Home Wanted Mother Letters Let Me Coming Home Grandma

“I started writing little short stories and poems as soon as I learned to read and write. I think I was six years old. And then when I got to be eleven, twelve, and into my teens, I was just listening to records all the time, and I got a guitar. I started to take guitar lessons when I was twelve.”

Thinking Writing Years Littles Stories Records Listening Lessons Six Guitar Short Story Twelve Teens Eleven Just Listen Six Year Olds

Author:Lucinda Williams

“I started writing more with my voice in mind.”

Writing Mind Voice

Author:Lucinda Williams

“I started writing morning pages just to keep my hand in, you know, just because I was a writer and I didn't know what else to do but write. And then one day as I was writing, a character came sort of strolling in and I realized, Oh my God, I don't have to be just a screenwriter. I can write novels.”

Knows Writing I Can Character Hands Morning Novel One Day Pages I Realized Strolling Screenwriters

Author:Julia Cameron

“I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.”

Writing Film Literature Simple Saws Childhood Scripts Excited Finished Copies Ukulele

Author:Manuel Puig

“I started writing my own things when I was about 8. I used to try to bully my friends into imitating the Spice Girls on the playground. Then I realized, Oh god, my career's going nowhere, so I looked in the Yellow Pages and phoned up the first cheap studio that I found and started recording.”

Writing Trying Girl I Realized Bully Spice Girls

Author:Charli XCX

“I started writing nonfiction because nonfiction is well-suited to subjects that, if you wrote them as fiction, people would say, "I don't believe this. This is a little outlandish".”

People Writing Believe Outlandish

Author:Debra Monroe

“I started writing novels while an undergraduate student, in an attempt to make sense of the city of Edinburgh, using a detective as my protagonist. Each book hopefully adds another piece to the jigsaw that is modern Scotland, asking questions about the nation's politics, economy, psyche and history ... and perhaps pointing towards its possible future.”

Writing Book Nations Cities Novel Economy Pieces Modern Students Asking Add Hopefully Make Sense Scotland Pointing Detectives Asking Questions Protagonists Edinburgh Undergraduate Jigsaw

Author:Ian Rankin

“I started writing one afternoon when I was twenty, and ever since then I have written every day. At first I had to force myself. Then it became part of my identity, and I did it without thinking.”

Thinking Writing Firsts Force Written Identity Twenties Afternoon

Author:David Sedaris

“I started writing plays in around 1967, and at a certain point, I thought, 'I'm writing plays, I should learn about acting and what it is.' So I went to the HB Studio in New York, and I was there for about nine months.”

Should Writing Play Certain Acting New York Months Studios Nine Nine Months

Author:Wallace Shawn

“I started writing plays, but the fact that plays don't last forever was too much for me to bear.”

Writing Play Facts Lasts Forever Too Much Bears

Author:Lena Dunham

“I started writing poetry and philosophy when I was 17 years old and my mind so was wild. Now I'm 56 and I often want to write like a child.”

Philosophy Poetry Poems Verse Stantasyland

Author:Stanley Victor Paskavich

Source: Stantasyland: Quips Quotes and Quandaries

“I started writing poetry because language was how I understood the world. It was a paradigm that made everything matter and in forms that were safe to hold what I felt.”

World Writing Made Matter Form Language Felt Safe Understood Poetry Is Paradigm Writing Poetry

Author:Grace Cavalieri

“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 were dark and sad. But I wrote about what I experienced in my childhood.”

Writing Believe Dark Teacher Childhood Mines Six Writing Poetry

Author:Mariah Carey

“I started writing rhymes first and then put it to the music. I figured out I could lock it to the beat better if I heard the music first. I like to get a lot of tracks, put the track up and let the music talk to me about what it's about.”

Ifs Writing Firsts Heard Beats Track Locks Rhyme Talk To Me

Author:Ice T

“I started writing serious books so late because I knew Id be accused of riding on my fathers coattails.”

Writing Book Father Serious Late Riding Accused Coattails

Author:Thomas Steinbeck

“I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30.”

Writing Age 1960s

Author:Fred Saberhagen

“I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.”

Writing Firsts Novel

Author:Sue Grafton

“I started writing seriously when I was a teenager, around 14 years old.”

Writing Years Teenager

Author:Marie Lu

“I started writing seriously when I was about 12. I am always in the mood.”

Writing Mood

Author:Stephen King

“I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists.”

Writing Fiction Cases Imagine Novelists Writing Short

Author:William Gibson

“I started writing sketches with Dennis Kelly, who I ended up writing 'Pulling' with. We entered a BBC competition and did quite well, then started writing bits for other people's shows. You wheedle your way in, write pilots and eventually you end up writing a sitcom.”

People Way Writing Wells Ends Shows Bits Competition Pilots Pulling Sitcom

Author:Sharon Horgan

“I started writing songs after I heard Hank Williams.”

Writing Country Song Heard Writing Songs Hank Williams

Author:Bob Dylan

Source: The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters career

“I started writing songs at age 15.”

Writing Age Song Writing Songs

Author:Vince Clarke

“I started writing songs in high school and always wanted to have a band, and eventually my creative endeavors developed into Theocracy. So in some ways, you could say the vision has been there since I started writing songs.”

Way Writing Has Beens Wanted School Song Vision Creative Band High School Endeavor Writing Songs Theocracy

Author:Matt Smith

“I started writing songs so late and I had so many day jobs - jobs just to pay the bills. So, when I started doing this, I said, "I'm never gonna do anything to corrupt this. Never try to "sell it." Never gonna do anything to make this a job." I can go five months without writing a song. Then something will happen and I'll write six songs in a week.”

Writing Trying Song Week

Author:Joshua Radin

“I started writing songs when I started learning guitar.”

Writing Song Guitar Writing Songs

Author:Courtney Barnett

“I started writing songs when I was 10. It was a natural way to express myself as a kid. It wasn't until I started listening to jazz, joined the choir and picked up a guitar that my little hobby became something far more serious.”

Way Writing Littles Kids Song Natural Serious Listening Jazz Guitar Hobbies Writing Songs Choir

Author:Kimbra

“I started writing songs when I was eight.”

Writing Song Eight Writing Songs

Author:Wiz Khalifa

“I started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn't know if they were good enough yet or anything.”

Ifs Knows Writing Enough Song Good Enough Writing Songs

Author:Lucinda Williams

“I started writing stories as a child.”

Writing Children Stories Literature Writing Stories Ukulele

Author:Danielle Steel

“I started writing stories in my spare time.”

Writing Stories Spares Spare Time Writing Stories

Author:Ken Follett

“I started writing stories when I was 9 or 10. I wrote my first screenplay-type document when I was 14.”

Writing Firsts Stories Type Documents Screenplays Writing Stories

Author:Cary Fukunaga

“I started writing the book without realizing I was writing a book. That sounds stupid, but it's true. I'd been trying and failing to make a different manuscript work, and I thought I was just taking a break by writing some short stories. I'm not a very good short story writer - the amazing compression that is required for short stories doesn't come easily to me. But anyway, I thought I'd try to write some short stories. And a structure took shape - I stumbled upon it.”

Writing Trying Book Different Realizing Break Failing Stupid Very Good Short Story Writing A Book Trying And Failing

Author:Ayana Mathis

“I started writing the one-sentence stories when I was translating 'Swann's Way.' There were two reasons. I had almost no time to do my own writing, but didn't want to stop. And it was a reaction to Proust's very long sentences.”

Way Want Writing Long Two Reason Stories My Own Sentences Reactions Translate One Sentence Proust

Author:Lydia Davis

“I started writing this book two years ago, to write the book I wish I had when I was finishing my undergrad or in my first years of grad school. I pack here all that I learned about writing and publishing papers. As an editor of scientific journals, it is always sad to see some manuscripts with potential but they don’t follow some basic rules of scientific writing. Also many people make silly mistakes in the submission to the journals or when responding to reviewers. I really hope this book can help many to make writing and publishing easier and even enjoyable. I made so it is short and easy to read, with many nice comics and figures that I hope make it even easier to read.”

Science Publishing Scientific Writing Early Career Researchers

Author:Martín Núñez

Source: A Pocket Guide to Scientific Writing and Publishing

“I started writing to make sense of the world that exists inside my heart”

Writing Judy Croome

Author:Judy Croome

“I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true.”

Writing Stills Stories Please

Author:Jean M. Auel

“I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got to sit in front of a computer. Now, when I have more time, I function the same way: if it's writing time, I write.”

Ifs Way Writing Kids Age Used Three Minutes Fronts Ten Computer Function More Time

Author:Jodi Picoult

“I started writing when I was 17. I got an acoustic guitar for my birthday after I discovered Bob Dylan and James Taylor.”

Writing Guitar Bob Dylan Acoustics My Birthday Acoustic Guitar

Author:Jason Reeves

“I started writing when I was 26, so I don't even know what year that was. I wrote a script for me to star in. A friend of mine, who was an actor that I would compete against a lot, had written a script and was taking all these meetings. He just kept pushing me and was like, "You got to do it. You're going to love it!" He's a very successful screenwriter now. His name is Michael Bacall and he wrote 21 Jump Street, Project X, and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. So it was a few factors.”

World Writing Successful Like You Meetings Pilgrim

Author:Danny Strong

“I started writing when I was 5 years old. I would dictate stories to my mother, and she would copy them in a scrapbook. If she changed anything to make it, in her opinion, better, I would throw a tantrum.”

Ifs Writing Years Stories Mother Opinion Changed Copies Tantrums

Author:Tom Robbins

“I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, typing little funny magazines and drawing comic strips.”

Writing Years Littles Kids Rooms Drawing Magazines Comic Typing Comic Strips

Author:R. L. Stine

“I started writing when I was a journalist. But every time I sat down to write a novel or a story, I ended up writing about myself, which was incredibly annoying and self-involved.”

Writing Self Stories Novel Involved Journalist Sat Annoying

Author:Damian Barr

“I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe.”

Writing Outkast

Author:Neil Gaiman

“I started writing when I was about fourteen, but when I was about sixteen you know, I heard Outkast, that was pretty much when I was sold on it.”

Knows Writing Heard Sixteen Fourteen Outkast

Author:Bubba Sparxxx

“I started writing when I was about thirteen.”

Writing Thirteen Outkast

Author:Al Purdy

“I started writing when I was around 6. I say 'writing,' but it was really just making up stuff! I started writing and doing my own thing. I didn't really know what a demo was or anything like that, so I started getting interested in studio gear and started learning about one instrument at a time. My first instrument was an accordion.”

Knows Writing Firsts Stuff My Own Instruments Studios Gears Making Up Demos Accordions

Author:Hunter Hayes

“I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.”

Writing Years Firsts Book Twenties Seventeen

Author:David Sedaris

“I started writing when I was twenty. My first book came out when I was thirty-five. But I never expected that it would happen quickly.”

Writing Firsts Book Happens Five Twenties Expected Thirty

Author:David Sedaris

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