Careers Quote by Charles de Lint

Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real career. I thought you had…

— James Rollins

I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.

— Nora Roberts

I've always liked to write, but I never thought I could make a career out of it.

— Dee Rees

I did not think of writing as a career and I don't think that I did this ever really, but I think of writing…

— Chinua Achebe

I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody…

— James A. Michener

I don't really think of writing as a career. It's something that happened to me. By working harder than I knew it was possible…

— Susan Cheever

I was writing since I can remember - I just didn't know it was poetry yet, or that writing could be a career.

— Amanda Gorman

This sounds like a cliche, but I always wanted to write. After college, I did some writing and realized very quickly that it's hard…

— Hooman Majd

Let's be clear - for people like me, who are obsessed with story and for whom words are their medium, writing is the best…

— Sara Sheridan

I always loved writing, but never considered that I could do it professionally.

— James L. Brooks

Narrative nonfiction was not my forte. I always wanted to let my imagination run free, and the facts sometimes got in the way. At…

— Douglas Florian

I've always wanted to be a novelist, so I just try to write really great narrative.

— Peter Heller