Careers Quote by Daniel Handler

I think my parents recognised that I'd always wanted to be a writer, and so they didn't think that this was some idle, faddish…

— Chang-Rae Lee

My parents were screenwriters, and they had four daughters and we all write. So that's amazing. Talk about powerful parents. My mother always said…

— Nora Ephron

“My youthful dream of becoming a writer has been realized. I am so pleased I did not let my young self down.”

— Jack Gantos

I think being a writer is being heavily attuned to the absolute absurdity of things you take for granted, and I think that having…

— Jenny Zhang

When I was growing up, my parents thought there could be nothing better than being a writer. And at that time, society afforded that…

— Alissa Quart

“Being a writer is a lot like being a mother, only books don't talk back when they get older.”

— Nandi Berry

“Your whole duty as a writer is to please and satisfy yourself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.”

— Anonymous

“I have this theory that most artists never leave childhood, that you're endlessly trying to work out what happened. And leaving university and facing…

— Rachel Cusk

“I see so many kids that love being writers more than they love writing.”

— Scroobius Pip

You're meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there's a lot to be said for a very happy one that…

— Emma Donoghue

“I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn’t want to be a writer. I wanted to be an…

— Joan Didion

My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.

— Lloyd Alexander