Alice Walker
Related By junior high, I was a horrible student. But during my sophomore year of high school, I did have a ... ANDREA BARRETT RACHEL DRATCH ED EMBERLEY PAUL AUSTER JANET FITCH NATASHA TRETHEWEY I've always wanted to have a book published - it was a dream of mine, but the thought of actuall... AHMET ZAPPA SPIKE LEE HUNTER HAYES DAVID J. C. MACKAY It sounds odd, but I was a singer and started writing songs, and I didn't have anything in mind.... BILL MEDLEY ALEXANDRA ADORNETTO TOM LEHRER E. L. DOCTOROW I didn't think anything I wrote was going to get published. I'm a dyslexic kid who had tutor... ISABEL GILLIES BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD JUNOT DIAZ MARY BALOGH GAYLE FORMAN NATALIE BABBITT I wrote for years before I was ever published, and I don't think I could ever stop. That said, I... JAMES ROLLINS LEWIS CARROLL TONY DUNGY I wrote my first book when I was 15 years old. And my second book '1,2,3 Publish Me!' shows ... MANIKA DYLAN MORAN In college, I wrote newspaper articles and songs. Then, on my 21st birthday, I sold my first book. I... JANE YOLEN CRAIG GROESCHEL MATTHEW QUICK NAGUIB MAHFOUZ When I first decided I was going to have a go at writing a book - and really, it was a mid-life cris... FIONA MCINTOSH CONNOR FRANTA KATE THOMPSON I didn't have any writer friends in college. I was a computer science major, but I was writing a... WATT KEY 'Despacito' started with a melody hook that I had with my guitar only. The beat for this tra... LUIS FONSI As a pastor and as a dad, I want my son to know I tell the truth. He can read the book. He knows if ... TODD BURPO BEN SCHNETZER KELSEA BALLERINI I had to take a big risk by writing my young adult book series 'The A Circuit' and putting m... GEORGINA BLOOMBERG I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986. TASLIMA NASRIN I was writing at a really young age, but it took me a long time to be brave enough to become a publi... K. A. APPLEGATE JERRY SPINELLI I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a ... AL YANKOVIC FRANCINE PASCAL CHRIS CRUTCHER GAIL CARSON LEVINE I had written a story. I wrote the story out of some desperation, really, and I didn't know I wa... DEBORAH EISENBERG I wrote that letter, and the one to Nixon. And I wrote more letters, and I thought it might be a mag... DON NOVELLO LEONARD COHEN I don't think I've ever frightened myself before when writing, but there were areas where th... ALAN GARNER I had an insanely long commute - New York to D.C. - when I worked at 'National Geographic.' ... CHARLES M. BLOW I had a pretty big sophomore year and I think my junior year I was struggling the first month or so ... CONOR JACKSON The first song that I remember writing in its entirety was when I was 9 years old. I wrote it on a b... KAT EDMONSON VIVEK WADHWA STEVEN BRUST WALTER DEAN MYERS LYDIA DAVIS In Mudcrutch we all wrote songs, and when it got to the focus on Tom and the Heartbreakers, I kept w... BENMONT TENCH My writing became more and more minimalist. In the end, I couldn't write at all. For seven or ei... KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD PAUL AUSTER JON KATZ As a child, I had no interest in science whatsoever - then I started writing and recognized how rele... LEE GUTKIND KURT VONNEGUT BEN SCHNETZER It had to be a book that held my attention and kept me wanting to read it; when my husband finished ... RACHEL TUCKER RICHARD WRIGHT JANE SMILEY I'm a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started 'California,' my son wasn't eve... EDAN LEPUCKI IAN FLEMING I wish I had never got manic depression. When I was in junior high, I didn't know what was the m... DANIEL JOHNSTON I have kept a diary, WITHNAIL AND I DAVID DASTMALCHIAN PAUL THEROUX ALBERT BROOKS I didn't realize until I was older what a huge music fan my daddy really was, and actually that ... ALAN JACKSON POUL ANDERSON Art is never finished, only abandoned. , (MAYBE) In re-reading 'Presumed Innocent,' the one thing that struck me - and I re-read the book fou... SCOTT TUROW RICHARD DAWKINS RITA DOVE Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book. Not just reading a book, writing a book. Actu... CHRIS MATTHEWS BOBBY ORR COREY TAYLOR NICHOLSON BAKER I started writing an album on flights to Africa and Brazil, but it was crazy because I left the note... ESTELLE MAYA ANGELOU In middle school, I started to draw, and my pencil sketches were huge. They were these 4ft by 3ft dr... JEFF KINNEY I am less selfish. But I am more insistent on being part of the creative experience. I find I am a b... HELEN SLATER After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting becau... IRIS CHANG ZOE KAZAN Ever since I was young, 14 or 15, I wondered if you could write a book that combined the visceral th... RICK YANCEY In my twenties, it was so important for me to show people I had all these other books and these othe... EVELYN LAU WOLE SOYINKA Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor's New Mind and that book was describing a poin... ROGER PENROSE One of my graduate school professors, to whom I started sending poems when I started writing again a... MARILYN NELSON My beloved husband goes through radiation, and a book of sonnets is my passionate response. And then... JANE YOLEN LANA DEL REY I realized very young that I loved reading and wanted to do something related to books/reading for a... ELLEN DATLOW I first started writing historical fiction in the late '70s and kept pictures of Kathleen Woodiw... VIRGINIA HENLEY AKHIL SHARMA TARYN MANNING
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I didn't originally intend on writing a book. I started writing during the day to feel like I wa... 
I don't know how old I was when I started writing books. But, I was born in 1931, and I wrote my... 
I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I... 
I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again u... 
Writing 'Native Guard,' I didn't know I was working on a single book. I began writing th... 
I didn't dream about being a director. I didn't know I wanted to do something with film unti... 
I started writing when I was around 6. I say 'writing,' but it was really just making up stu... 
I was writing a book about sustainable energy, and a friend asked me, 'Well, how much energy do ... 
Literature has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I can't think back before a t... 
I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't tha... 
One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the p... 
I didn't always want to act. My passion was writing, and it still is one of my primary passions ... 
I didn't start writing until late high school and then I was just diddling. Mainly I loved to re... 
I think I wrote 'The Trysting Place' in about three weeks. But it was inexperience that made... 
I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and though... 
My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if ... 
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to... 
I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English tea... 
I've been writing since I was very young, even before I was a teenager. As far as I'm concer... 
I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. 
When I wrote 'Silver Linings,' I thought I was writing a book about the Philadelphia Eagles ... 
I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I ad... 
Never think you can't do something. I definitely never thought I could write a book, and even af... 
My first book was an adult novel, 'Down Among the Gods,' published by Virago, and I've w... 
I didn't start drama school until I was 20, and I don't think I would have gotten nearly as ... 
When I was 13, I started writing songs, and it fell into my lap all of a sudden. I wrote poems and j... 
I was very naive, and I thought it was just a matter of writing my first book and sending it in, and... 
Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the st... 
My early life had a lot to do with my origins as a writer, but I didn't get into doing any writi... 
My interest in the theater led me to my first writing experience as an adult. My husband David wrote... 
I don't have any sense or urgency about any of my writing, actually. I don't think mankind w... 
Writing a book is usually a full-time job that takes years. I didn't have years. So I decided to... 
It wasn't until I was working on 'Tacky' that I admitted to myself that I was writing a ... 
I was a good student, but a speech impediment was causing problems. One of my teachers decided that ... 
I started writing the one-sentence stories when I was translating 'Swann's Way.' There w... 
When I wrote about media and technology, I had a lot of lonely, even intimate book talks. Since writ... 
As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or any human ... 
I had written a book of short stories which was published under the title of "Uncle Tom's Children".... 
I wrote the Dickens book because I loved Dickens, not because I felt a kinship with him, but after w... 
Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning, 'Casino Royale' dutifully produced i... 
The first comic book I ever bought, I was in third grade. It was 'Avengers,' I think, #240. ... 
When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and ... 
I wrote this book, '2030,' and I was careful in the book not to overdo the future because I ... 
I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications h... 
I like to think 'The God Delusion' is a humorous book. I think, actually, it's full of l... 
It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I wa... 
I didn't want to do a book just to do a book. I wanted to do a book that, if you should read it,... 
With 'Seven Deadly Sins,' there was a lot of personal stuff in there that I didn't even ... 
While I was writing I assumed it would be published under a pseudonym, and that liberated me: what I... 
I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my b... 
I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a jo... 
I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and se... 
I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing someth... 
I had written a book. For various reasons, the publishing industry had decided that my book was goin... 
I just had to find something else to fulfill me. Always being a singer and writing, it was a blessin... 
I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this tim... 
It is because I recognize the brutality with which my own multi-branched ancestors have been treated... 
Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence. 
Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve. 
The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way. 
When the wind blows through a wood, its mass is cut and closed by every leaf, forming a train of jit... 