Writing Quote by Anne Tyler Download Open image “I didn't really choose to write; I more or less fell into it.” — Anne Tyler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Writing
I never told anybody I wanted to write, I kind of fell into it backwards. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
If you want to write, then write; if you don't want to write, then don't write. I fell into the former category, and I… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
I can't say that I ever actually decided to become a writer. It kind of snuck up on me. — William Landay Copy Share Image
The more and more I got into writing, the harder and harder it became for me. I still love it, but it became much… — Paloma Elsesser Copy Share Image
I really didnt intend to become an author, but I just happened to fall into it. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I did not want to write, but I had to resign myself to it in the end. — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be a writer initially. It was not my thing, but I was an avid reader. — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If you didn't want to be written about, you shouldn't have been born to a writer! — Emily Yoffe Copy Share Image
Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Writing is a demanding profession and a selfish one. And because it is selfish and demanding, because it is compulsive and exacting, I didn't… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. -… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood. — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
Mostly it's lies, writing novels. You set out to tell an untrue story and you try to make it believable, even to yourself. Which… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
“You wake in the morning, you’re feeling fine, but all at once you think, “Something’s not right. Something’s off somewhere; what is it?” And… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
“...that was Julian for you: reckless. A dashing sailor, a speedy driver, a frequenter of single bars, he was the kind of man who… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
“Disaster followed disaster... the hero stuck in there, though. Macon had long ago noticed that all adventure movies had the same moral: Perseverance pays.… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work. — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
“Justine hated pantsuits. Whenever she saw one, she had an urge to tell the owner some scandalous fortune, loudly enough to be heard everywhere:… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I would drink gallons of coffee a day. Even now, off caffeine, I talk faster than anyone you've ever met. I finally recognized that… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a… — Janice Kaplan Copy Share Image
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
