Achievement Quote by Anne-Marie Duff

I am shy and self-conscious and awkward, so I think that's why I became a writer.

— Michiko Kakutani

I got a degree in English from Brigham Young University, but I didnt study creative writingjust literature. I was too much a coward to…

— Stephenie Meyer

I always wanted to be a writer, and I did want to be a novelist. In college I took a couple of classes that…

— Anne Fadiman

All I've wanted to do is write. In school I just wanted to be a writer but I was afraid to be a writer…

— Eoin Macken

Every decade of my life I attempted to write a novel. But I had nothing to say. I was far too self-absorbed, and now…

— Louise Penny

I never even dreamt of being a writer because I didn't feel allowed. When I was a child I was terribly ambitious, but I…

— Amelie Nothomb

I became a writer because during several of the most important years of my life, writing seemed to me to be the most unreal,…

— William Saroyan

When I was young, I never thought I was going to be a writer! I was academically orientated and active at sports, but I…

— Amish Tripathi

When I went to high school, I wanted to be a designer of airplanes. But flunking out of the science high school brought me…

— Avi

In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.

— Kate Morton

When I was in college I started writing prose, because a very smart professor asked me what I like to read and I said,…

— Melissa Febos

When I was 22 years old, I thought girls would like me if I wrote a novel. I spent so much time writing that…

— James Altucher