Explanation Quote by Don DeLillo

I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore.

— Don DeLillo

I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction.

— Elizabeth Moon

I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else.

— Hugh Leonard

I did not want to write, but I had to resign myself to it in the end.

— Samuel Beckett

I didn't intend to become a short-story writer. I became one because I finished a couple of short stories and realized that's what I…

— Grace Paley

Writing happened to me. I didn't decide to start writing or to be a writer. I never wanted to be a writer.

— Robert Gottlieb

I had wanted to be a novelist for so long, but I didn't have a story. That story came from the death of my…

— Robert Crais

I never wanted to be a writer; I just had stories I needed to tell.

— Sefi Atta

I did try to write fiction. I wrote 10 novels. And they were all just awful.

— Alexandra Fuller

I started writing because I wanted to write scripts, but I wasn't very good at it. Then I started writing short stories, sort of…

— Jasper Fforde

I wanted to be a writer and I ended up being a writer.

— Lady Colin Campbell

The first thing I tried to write was a novel, when I took that time off in grad school. Then I didn't finish it.…

— Elif Batuman