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I knew I wanted to be a writer and I knew if I had a wife and family, I would neglect something, and I…

— Ernest Gaines

There was a time before I felt I was a real writer, when I was a yarn spinner and I just wanted to tell…

— Joss Whedon

The reason I started writing was because I was a little kid in San Diego who was getting beaten up by her dad and…

— Dorianne Laux

I became a writer out of the desire to express myself.

— Pankaj Kapur

I think with my book, I wanted to first of all just be completely involved in it. I wanted to write it; I didn't…

— Vogue Williams

Writing is a type of therapy for me. I'm always trying to break down what happened, and why I felt a certain way.

— Lulu Wang

When I started writing, I thought nobody would understand the things that I liked. Then I began getting a lot of letters from people…

— Novala Takemoto

I think if I hadn't become a writer I would just have suppressed that part of my personality. I think I would have put…

— Hilary Mantel

One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position…

— E. L. Doctorow

Had my credentials been in order I would never have become a writer. Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own…

— Joan Didion

“Writers use both their blood and their brains to explore the darkest recesses of their pooling self. Writing allows us to harness the whimsy…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed

— Dan Simmons