Deceit Quote by Christopher Hampton

I did what most writers do at their beginnings: emulated my elders, imitated my peers, thus turning away from any possibility of discovering truths…

— Ray Bradbury

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 think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me.

— Patrick Modiano

I became a writer not because my father was one - my father made false teeth for a living. I became a writer because…

— Richard Rodriguez

I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome.

— Edward Carpenter

Every time I tried to express my most heartfelt desires to be morally good I met with contempt and ridicule; and as soon as…

— Leo Tolstoy

For years I felt that being respectable meant maintaining a sinister complacency, and the disreputable freedom I sought helped make me a writer.

— Paul Theroux

A lot of what I've written in criticism of my lust for virtue - my discovery that I've committed idolatry, making of the good…

— Susan Sontag

I no longer find such pleasure in that preeminently good society, of which I was once so fond. It seems to me that beneath…

— Stendhal

I trained as a writer before I became a lawyer. I was headed for a life as an English professor, but that just wasn't…

— Scott Turow

I claim to be a conscientiously immoral writer.

— George Bernard Shaw