Absolutely Quote by Amish Tripathi

I never wanted to be a writer; I just had stories I needed to tell.

— Sefi Atta

If you don't want to be in a story, don't know a writer.

— Ethan Mordden

This sounds like a cliche, but I always wanted to write. After college, I did some writing and realized very quickly that it's hard…

— Hooman Majd

I'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more.

— Michael Morpurgo

Writing is a passion I have never understood, yet a storyteller is all I have ever wanted to be.

— Ruth Park

I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it.

— Thomas Perry

The truth is, I hadn't grown up really wanting to be a writer. The whole thing was a weird aberration in some ways, and…

— Alex Garland

I had wanted to be a novelist for so long, but I didn't have a story. That story came from the death of my…

— Robert Crais

I never wanted to be a writer initially. It was not my thing, but I was an avid reader.

— Dustin Lance Black

Fiction has always been a thorn in my side, because I've always wanted to be a writer but I can't seem to really do…

— Sufjan Stevens

If you want to be a writer, write a little bit every day. Pay attention to the world around you. Stories are hiding, waiting…

— Kate DiCamillo

I started out as a writer of fiction, but nobody wanted to publish my work as a young man. So I decided to put…

— Fred Kaplan