Knew Quote by Darnell Lamont Walker

I didn't become a writer to write about me.

— Salman Rushdie

I always wanted to be a writer, and I did want to be a novelist. In college I took a couple of classes that…

— Anne Fadiman

At some point, sitting in the school library, during reading period, I looked up from my leopard print hardcover composition notebook where I was…

— Vera Nazarian

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

— Thomas Keneally

I've known Jennifer [Salke] for so long. Before I was a writer, I did garden design, and I designed Jennifer's garden, many years ago.…

— Ryan T. Murphy

I really had to develop a core. I had to figure out, at my core as a writer, what did I value? What was…

— Jenny Zhang

I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone.…

— Patricia Marx

In high school, I had a teacher there who was really great to me and with whom I finally dared to admit I wanted…

— Jonathan Dee

I've turned my back on fancy parties and red carpets. I'm a writer, and if I did that, I'd never get anything done.

— Pete Doherty

I read a lot of the books that I love again and again and again and try to understand how the writer did it.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I didn't say I have to be a writer, but I did say that I needed to publish at least one book.

— Tomi Adeyemi

Writing: I certainly do rewrite my central myth in every book, and would never read or trust any writer who did not also do…

— Northrop Frye