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I could start with Mandelstam, who was a huge influence on my early writing. -- Helen Dunmore
One of the fascinating things about early writing on slates, on papyrus, even on early handwritten books, is for instance, there were no space between the words. People just wrote in continuous script. -- Nicholas G. Carr
But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, but her early writing was very dark and had a gothic tone to it. -- Seth Grahame-Smith
One of the most productive times in my early writing life was while I had a full-time job as a word processor in a law firm and also worked part-time at night, often working until 11:00 P.M. -- John Lescroart
In my early writing, all of my characters were exactly the same person. They all spoke the same, made the same types of jokes, reacted the same, etc. I think they were all just me in disguise. -- James Dashner
As anthropomorphic and surreal people have said my early writing was, to me it was really stock and almost banal in the sense that it was just description, the poetry of comparing: "Your feet are like A, and your eyes like B." -- Devendra Banhart
Well, I'd had the Fat Mattress earlier as a writing outlet for songs and that. -- Noel Redding
I started playing guitar before I can really remember, and I started writing really early, too. -- Randy Houser
I set out to write a screenplay but, since my early 20s, had dreamed of writing a novel. -- Graeme Simsion
Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide. -- Jack Nicholson
I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed. -- Sue Townsend
I spend most of every day writing. I like to write every day if I can. I don't start extremely early. -- Jeffrey Eugenides
Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw. -- Margaret Atwood
I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels. -- Patrick White
I'm sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I'm useless after noon when it comes to writing first draft. -- Hallie Ephron
I've never been good with deadlines. My early novels, I wrote by myself. No one knew I was writing a novel; I didn't have a contract. -- George R. R. Martin
Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I'd force myself to sit down until I came up with something. -- Luke Bryan
My early life has given me a great deal to draw on, certainly - but would I have swapped a happy childhood for the writing? Yes. -- Bruce Robinson
Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant. -- Walter Gilbert
Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays. -- Patrick White
Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise. And so I started writing and drawing at an early age. -- Gunter Grass
I'm really boring. I get up early. I go to bed early. I don't smoke or drink. I mean, I'll eat a cupcake. I'm just not a crazy, stay-out-all-night sort of person. I love writing. -- Karin Slaughter
I wasn't a class clown, I just found at an early age that I was able to make people laugh. So I mostly wrote funny stuff instead of writing what I was supposed to be writing. -- Alan Zweibel
I always loved singing and writing poetry. I always loved music, and I've loved writing my whole life. When I put them together, it was probably in my early 20s where I put words to music for the first time. -- Lisa Marie Presley
I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals; I was involved in school plays; I wrote essays, so there was no definite moment when I said, 'Now I'm a writer.' I've always been a writer. -- Wole Soyinka
I think we're always in some ways writing to the teachers who gave us early love. -- Dan Chaon
I know people my age (early 40s) who insist upon only writing. You know what we call them? Ex-journalists. -- Jeff Pearlman
I start casting early in the writing process, so I can tailor the script to the gifts of the actors. -- Judd Apatow
Your book grows. The early part of your book is growing still while you are writing the later part of your book. -- Walter Mosley
I really am enjoying writing more than ever. I feel like I'm so much more focused than I was in the early times. -- Debbie Harry
One of the things you learn very early in writing for television, especially, is that compressing the story is always a good idea. -- Alex Gansa
There is an atmosphere of spiritual effort here. No other city is quite like it. I wake early, often at 5 o'clock, and start writing at once. -- James Joyce
As long as I can remember, I've been writing - first poems, then stories, and by my early teenage years I was also in love with sailing. -- Nathaniel Philbrick
You keep your followers confused when you begin very well and give up too early... Suspense is useful in movies, but useless when writing your success stories! -- Israelmore Ayivor
I always worry that knowing too much about a novel or a story early on in writing will close it down - it feels fatalistic in some way. -- Dan Chaon
Start early and work hard. A writer's apprenticeship usually involves writing a million words (which are then discarded) before he's almost ready to begin. That takes a while. -- David Eddings
I would observe to you that what is called style in writing or speaking is formed very early in life while the imagination is warm, and impressions are permanent. -- Thomas Jefferson

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