Carried Quote by Colin Wilson

Although I always said that I wanted to be a writer from childhood, I hadn't actually done much about it until I came to…

— Tracy Chevalier

I never wanted to be a literary writer. I wanted to be an entertainer. All I wanted was to give what a lot of…

— M.C. Beaton

In fact I'd like to go back and live in Shakespeare's London.

— Jim Broadbent

I'd given up everything to be a writer, and if I didn't then go on to do that - to write - then I…

— James Salter

But that incessant drive to be out there in the literary universe that was important to me when I was in my twenties, like…

— Rick Moody

If I had been brought up in America, I think I would still have had the same sort of job as a writer.

— Justin Cartwright

It would have been very easy to drift into writing a non-fiction book so by taking it away from Nottingham I forced myself to…

— Jon McGregor

I could have been a writer.

— Harry Dean Stanton

I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did.

— Thomas Keneally

If you grow up in Britain, you just do Shakespeare. If you go and work in a theater once or twice or three times…

— Timothy Dalton

to write a novel in the heart of London is next to an impossibility. I feel as if I were nailing a flag to…

— Virginia Woolf

I wrote about the life of a housing officer in Britain, in a pretty rough area of London. Maybe it was because I'm a…

— Ben Richards