Intimidated Quote by David Rees

I'm not as good a prose writer as I'd like to be, but I never aspired to that.

— Mark Waid

I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing.

— Steve Toltz

I am shy and self-conscious and awkward, so I think that's why I became a writer.

— Michiko Kakutani

I can't say that I ever actually decided to become a writer. It kind of snuck up on me.

— William Landay

I found it incredibly challenging to write clear prose that had the dynamism that I wanted.

— Alex Lemon

I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day,…

— Daniel Pinkwater

I could have been a writer.

— Harry Dean Stanton

In college, I think I probably positioned myself as an aspiring writer, meaning I dressed sort of extravagantly and adopted all the semi-Byronic affectations,…

— Anthony Bourdain

Feeling intimidated is a good sign. Writing from a place of safety produces stuff that is at best dull and at worst dishonest.

— Lucy Prebble

I never wanted to be a writer initially. It was not my thing, but I was an avid reader.

— Dustin Lance Black

I always just wanted to be a writer, not necessarily a particular kind of writer.

— Jill Lepore

I pretty much always wanted to be a writer.

— Jane Goldman