Aesthetic Quote by Amy Tan

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 started writing because I wanted to write myself stuff. It was really more that I had these stories to tell, and I…

— Josh Lawson

I've always wanted to be a writer. Ever since I learned to read, I've wanted to share stories with others the way my favorite…

— Jennifer Chiaverini

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

— Sefi Atta

I have known I wanted to be a writer since I was seven-years-old. Seriously. In the second grade I wrote a 21-page story and…

— Renee Watson

I'd been writing stories since I was a child. I wrote little books for my mom and bound them myself with needle and thread.…

— Tess Gerritsen

I've always wanted to be a writer. I've been writing since I was probably four years old - it was nonsense, but it was…

— Roxane Gay

I've just always written, and always considered myself a writer. I wrote my first story when I was five. There was nothing else I…

— Jami Attenberg

Writing was a way to get away from my life as a programmer, so I wanted to write about other things, but of course…

— Ellen Ullman

I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day,…

— Daniel Pinkwater

I've always wanted to write a book. And it turned out that it was more about finding a story that I felt I was…

— Hank Green

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

— Michael Morpurgo