I never thought I wanted to write. Never did I know I can…

I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write.

— Elizabeth Strout

A couple months after my heart attack, fifty-seven years after I'd given it up, I started to write again. I did it for myself…

— Nicole Krauss

“i write because if i did not, i would surely go mad. but perhaps being a little bit mad is why i write.”

— Drunk-On-Writing

I would show my jobs to my mother, and she would always say the same thing: "That's nice dear". And then she would say:…

— Brian Webb

I didn’t do anything. I don’t have an explanation, I don’t know why I wanted to write. I did some short stories at that…

— Don DeLillo

“Every Monday, we have to write about what we did at the weekend.” It didn’t appear that her mother understood the agony of this…

— Jane Davis

I wanted to write a book about two women falling in love that wasn't hinged on tragedy or that involved some horrible identity-based misfortune.…

— Camille Perri

I should write a book. I've always wanted to write a book. I should write a book about kids who see dead people.

— George Noory

Charcoal stares one foot at a time smear those lines. I thought I found what I always wanted. Bear with me I thought I…

— Kittie

“That, Claire thought, was a pretty good definition of love: needing someone even after you got what you thought you wanted.”

— Rachel Caine

I thought he wanted it, anyway," I say. "Not like this," Haymitch says. "He wanted it to be real.

— Suzanne Collins

I actually never thought I wanted to do a series.

— Emily Hampshire

I liked to pretend a lot. I thought I could be anything that I wanted.

— Brian Ortega

I grew up with the thought that I wanted to treat people the way I'd like to be treated, and I think if you…

— Nolan Ryan

I always thought it was what I wanted: to be loved and admired. Now I think perhaps I'd like to be known.

— Kristin Hannah