Bohemian Quote by Christopher Hitchens

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

— Tess Gerritsen

I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends, living like starving artists, and wonder, 'Where's the…

— P. J. O'Rourke

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

— Ruskin Bond

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

I've been a writer my whole life.

— Scheana Shay

But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes…

— Robert E. Howard

I can't imagine a more fulfilling thing for a writer than that you've made a strong impact on the lives of other people. Just…

— Armistead Maupin

Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.

— Rita Mae Brown

I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Sometimes, in my published complaints about not being a writer, I have recalled the prospect - the yearning to be a writer - as…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

No, I never thought that I would be a writer. I had always been told I could write well, but it never occurred to…

— Elizabeth Berg

One of the things I learned from my father, and it did not serve me well at all, was that he was a successful…

— Michael Tolkin