Audience Quote by Ariel Gore

It's my belief that I was a writer - a very hardworking writer - well before I was published. I did care what others…

— Min Jin Lee

I was writing for myself, not to be published. I was writing diaries, even letters, to myself or to anyone I was angry at.…

— Katie Piper

I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it…

— Gwendolyn Brooks

As a writer, I first felt successful before I was published.

— Patrick Rothfuss

I wanted to be involved with literature. I certainly wasn't going to be able to write for a living, and I didn't have enough…

— Jonathan W. Galassi

I write for the love of writing. If I never published another book, I would still be writing stories.

— Christine Feehan

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 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 think I became a writer because I used to write letters to my friends, and I used to love writing them. I loved…

— David Nicholls

I thought of myself as a writer for years before I got around to writing anything.

— E. L. Doctorow

I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an…

— Dirk Benedict

I always felt my writing could benefit from the attention of established writers. I knew my work could grow and be better.

— Uwem Akpan