First place Quote by Brian Aldiss

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

— Tess Gerritsen

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 had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.

— Haruki Murakami

I may not have become a good writer, but I managed to make a living out of writing.

— Ruskin Bond

When I was growing up, my parents thought there could be nothing better than being a writer. And at that time, society afforded that…

— Alissa Quart

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

The only reason I became a writer was so I could exist on a piece of paper.

— Jose Antonio Vargas

I was a writer since I was a little kid. It just always sort of fit for me.

— Brian Bird

The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never…

— Russell Baker

There's no path to being a writer that's applicable to everyone. Some young writers have the fortitude to work in a vacuum. For me,…

— Jonathan Dee

...One reason I became a writer was that I figured out that if you call yourself a writer, you can read all you want…

— Katherine Paterson