First place Quote by Alex Borstein

I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most…

— Margaret Mahy

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

I've been writing most of my life; it's just something I do.

— Alejandro Zambra

Once I began college, I was committed to writing, which I think is different from saying I wanted to become a writer. I knew…

— Dinaw Mengestu

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

— Steve Toltz

I've always liked to write, but I never thought I could make a career out of it.

— Dee Rees

Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at school, I made…

— Anita Desai

I had a 20-year career. I have two children. The advantage of writing later in my life is that I already had a whole…

— Amor Towles

My entire life has been centered around my writing, and by that I mean finding the time to write.

— Jillian Medoff

I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly…

— Robert Morgan

Wrote my first "novel" when I was six. Studied a bit in college, but then pursued history... But when I started writing professionally, it…

— David B. Coe

I never started writing because I wanted to write myself stuff. It was really more that I had these stories to tell, and I…

— Josh Lawson