I always thought I'd write when I retired - when I turned…

I always thought I'd write when I retired - when I turned 65. But by the time I was 33, to tell you the…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I turned 65 and thought, 'Oh my God, I'm a senior. How did this happen?'

— Margaret Trudeau

Suddenly I turned 65 and realized, 'Oh my goodness, I'm old.' I think it was when I got into the movie theatres cheaper.

— Margaret Trudeau

I've always written a little bit. I mean, I've written screenplays, and I've doctored my dialogue for years, and I've written speeches - I…

— Rob Lowe

“What words she had thought to write on the face of the moon were washed away from her as she submerged, trying to disturb…

— Gregory Maguire

I thought I could never write a proper book; I'd never done it before. But I thought I could write a sequence. Then I…

— Tana French

“When I got older, I still thought I could write life. I didn't understand, as my mother had just realized that evening, that it…

— Shawna Yang Ryan

I spent some time in India and thought I might write about Hinduism. But it's so far removed from my experience I couldn't even…

— Dan Brown

“He remembered the good times with them all, and the quarrels. They always picked the finest places to have the quarrels. And why had…

— Ernest Hemingway

Poetry has always been this completely alien art to me. I am the sort of bloke who, when he gets into things, generally tries…

— Frank Skinner

“I stretched out on the bed and slept. It was twilight when I awakened and turned on the light. I felt better, no longer…

— John Fante

I never thought I'd write, because I'd never written anything in my whole life.

— Linda Ronstadt

I thought I might write mysteries for the rest of my life.

— Jane Smiley

So I thought I should write five pages a day. And that's what I did. Eventually I had a book.

— Don Winslow

“A man without a past, he thought, can write any future.”

— John Katzenbach