Books Quote by David Guterson

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

In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I was in…

— Ayad Akhtar

I think I became [writer] despite myself - tricking myself into it, really.

— Vera Nazarian

I became a writer out of the desire to express myself.

— Pankaj Kapur

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

— Terry Pratchett

My great fear of being attacked or trivialized by my contemporaries made me concentrate on what I was trying to do as a writer.…

— Pat Conroy

I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I'm enormously…

— Vikram Seth

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

Reading has made such a profound difference to my life. I'm sure I became a writer because of the power of literature in my…

— Katherine Paterson

Everything that I write, I somehow tie it back into who I am and how I grew up.

— Jimmie Allen

I realized that my identity as a novelist was private. Only I knew how much of a novelist I was!

— Alexander Chee

I became a writer in spite of my environments.

— Robert E. Howard