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Sometimes, in my published complaints about not being a writer, I have recalled the prospect - the yearning to be a writer - as…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

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

I was always meant to be a writer. I've felt that way since I was a child.

— Tess Gerritsen

Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves,…

— Adrienne Rich

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

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

The part of the process that's exciting to me is feeling like I'm in a place I've never been before, in every way. Without…

— Jennifer Egan

Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.

— Wole Soyinka

I always wanted to write fiction. Always. As far back as I can remember it's been integral to my sense of myself - everything…

— Will Self

Almost 70 years have gone by, and I've still got that feeling when I write... Writing, for me, is still it. It has always…

— Clive James

I couldn't be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because I'm pretty optimistic.

— Jacqueline Woodson

There is and always has been for me a peculiar need to write. This is very different from wanting to be a writer. To…

— Patricia Wentworth