English teacher Quote by Blake Crouch

I had the most incredible English and literature teachers in school, and it really influenced my love of storytelling. It's what made me excited…

— Sophia Bush

I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most…

— Margaret Mahy

It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was…

— Paulo Coelho

When I was younger, the main struggle was to be a 'good writer.' Now I more or less take my writing abilities for granted,…

— Jonathan Franzen

It was failing part of my Ph.D. that led me into novel-writing. By then I was 29, had remarried and had a second baby.…

— Kate Atkinson

I felt a failure because I couldn't sustain myself from what I earned from my writing. My day jobs were what mattered, and it…

— Sandra Cisneros

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 always wrote stories, but I do remember a particular moment in middle school where I became passionate about essay writing.

— Rupi Kaur

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

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.

— Goh Chok Tong

My mother was a schoolteacher and very, very encouraging. She understood what it meant when I said I wanted to be a writer; both…

— Derek Walcott

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