Always Quote by Chris Pavone

I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day,…

— Daniel Pinkwater

I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing.

— Steve Toltz

I never wanted to be a writer initially. It was not my thing, but I was an avid reader.

— Dustin Lance Black

I always wanted to write, ever since I was a kid. I started writing at the age of 11. All I wanted to do…

— Roger Zelazny

Writing happened to me. I didn't decide to start writing or to be a writer. I never wanted to be a writer.

— Robert Gottlieb

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

When people say, Did you always want to be a writer?, I have to say no! I always WAS a writer.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I never thought about writing. I was married young, I was still in college, as we did then, and I had two babies before…

— Judy Blume

Still, I kept writing. I had no guarantee that I would someday win awards for writing. Heavens, the only person during that time who…

— Katherine Paterson

I've just always written, and always considered myself a writer. I wrote my first story when I was five. There was nothing else I…

— Jami Attenberg

What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able to write... Maybe the…

— Paul Di Filippo

One of the reasons that I think I do love to write is because I did have a difficult childhood and not so great…

— Meg Cabot