When I was a lecturer at UC Berkeley, I wrote a book about monsters.

- Annalee Newitz

I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.

- Abel Korzeniowski

I've come to think of Dunnett as the literary equivalent of the Velvet Underground; Not many people bought the books, but everyone who did wrote a novel.

- Alaya Dawn Johnson

Before I published anything, I dreamed of publication, but I didn't actually write for it. I imagined that writing for an audience was something for fancier people. I aspired, but mostly I wrote for myself. I wrote because it made me happy.

- Ariel Gore

I've always kind of wrote when I wanted to. Once I get the idea in my head and get it outlined out, I usually just sit and write until it's done.

- Amanda Hocking

I read a lot of W.E.B. Du Bois, who wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk.'

- Andre Holland

They had always told me that I wrote like a man.

- Ama Ata Aidoo

When I started out, I wrote the songs, recorded the songs, mastered, mixed, did the artwork, made the packaging and did the distribution, all myself. Now I understand what everyone's jobs are, who is doing them right, and who isn't.

- Aloe Blacc

I did go there later, but I hadn't been there before I wrote the book. Sometimes I feel like the imagined can feel more real than the real?

- Alice Hoffman

A good story is a good story no matter who wrote it.

- Anne McCaffrey

The first thing I wrote was a one-act play that got accepted at a one-act play festival, and I was in it along with Nathan Lane and a couple of other very good actors.

- Aaron Sorkin

I was one of those kids who always wrote.

- Alice McDermott

I started writing in my 20s. I just wanted to write, but I didn't have anything to write about, so in the beginning, I wrote entertainments - mainly murder mysteries.

- Alan Furst

I wrote out little mysteries in longhand, and my mother typed them out on an old Remington.

- Alan Furst

I wrote my epitaph: He started out a particle and ended up a wave.

- Alan Arkin

Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.

- Arthur Conan Doyle

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.

- Amy Winehouse

My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.

- Alice Walker

I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years.

- Albert Ellis

I find it quite difficult to think that there's, you know, about 20 million people listening to my album that I wrote very selfishly to get over a breakup. I didn't write it being that it's going to be a hit.

- Adele