Believe Quote by Deb Caletti

I became a writer because during several of the most important years of my life, writing seemed to me to be the most unreal,…

— William Saroyan

I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me.

— Patrick Modiano

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

I'd wanted to be a writer since I was knee-high. Once I knew that books were written by people and didn't just happen, it…

— Jon Spaihts

I became a reader - never mind a writer - because of Stephen King.

— Paul G. Tremblay

I've always been a writer. I hope to continue to write books until I can't anymore.

— Megan McCafferty

I became a writer not because my father was one - my father made false teeth for a living. I became a writer because…

— Richard Rodriguez

I've come to think of myself as a writer of books.

— Richard Hell

The only reason I became a writer was so I could exist on a piece of paper.

— Jose Antonio Vargas

I worked in publishing before I became an author, so I knew how a book gets made.

— Lauren Oliver

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

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.

— Goh Chok Tong