I never really chose to be a writer. It's just always been…

I think the novel form chose me. I was a writer before I became a criminal... my first instinct was to write.

— Gregory David Roberts

“If you are writing and no-one reads it, are you a writer, or you just writing?”

— Matt Drabble

I had to decide if I wanted to be known as a writer or a reader. I chose writer.

— Nathan Lowell

“Day dreamers often can become night writers...When young I didn't toy with the concept of a glass half full or half empty. I was…

— Walter B. Biondi

“I didn't choose to write…writing chose me”

— Dara J. Nelson

It seems that writing chose me. I feel that because I know history, and I know the history of so many cultures; I have…

— Maxine Hong Kingston

I am motivated to write because it is what I am meant to do. It is not a choice - it is what I…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

I feel as though I never had choice not to be a writer. I feel in my heart of hearts that writing chose me…

— Jerdine Nolen

Because I work so much, people think that I have a team writing for me, but that's not why I chose to write music…

— Alexandre Desplat

“I had been a writer all of my life, every waking second, and now that part of my life was over. I suppose the…

— Bonnie Greer

I'm often just writing just to write. I'm not writing with...If I write, like, sitting down with a goal in mind, it's always, like,…

— Dan Deacon

I've just been writing stuff down as it comes to me. I haven't thought, 'Let me write some major opus here.'

— Harvey Pekar

I made the choice not to have children, so I can spend my days just writing; there are no kids demanding my time.

— Seanan McGuire

“No, I am just writing this because, sometimes, you’re still all I have to write about. Sometimes you’re the only thing that my typewriter…

— Moriah Pearson

I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.

— Dan Deacon