I always wanted to be a writer.

I think my parents recognised that I'd always wanted to be a writer, and so they didn't think that this was some idle, faddish…

— Chang-Rae Lee

My mother wanted me to be a writer, which I have ended up taking a long road round to.

— Mick Foley

I never wanted to be a writer.

— Herta Muller

I always wanted to be a writer. In the beginning, I thought I had to rewrite 'Gone with the Wind,' but eventually, I found…

— Karin Slaughter

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a writer, but I didn't think it would really be possible.

— Lisa Joy

I've always wanted to be a writer ever since I was in kindergarten, so that was ultimately what I wanted to do with my…

— Angela Yee

“Interviewer (Louise Tucker): What did you want to be when you grew up? Have you always wanted to be a writer? IllumBerg: When I…

— Natasha IllumBerg

I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing.

— Steve Toltz

I'd wanted to be a writer my whole life. But when I finally made it, I felt like a greyhound catching the mechanical rabbit…

— Anne Lamott

I pretty much always wanted to be a writer.

— Jane Goldman

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.

— Goh Chok Tong

I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts.

— Jonathan Lethem

I wanted to be a writer and I ended up being a writer.

— Lady Colin Campbell

I had just been in some repressive situations - the black middle-class college scene and the crazy United States Air Force - and so…

— Amiri Baraka

I had it in my head when I was in college that I wanted to be a writer, but it took me a long…

— Kate DiCamillo