Fiction Quote by Don DeLillo

I didn’t do anything. I don’t have an explanation, I don’t know why I wanted to write. I did some short stories at that…

— Don DeLillo

I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.

— Theodore Sturgeon

I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction.

— Elizabeth Moon

Many years ago I had two small children, and I wanted to be able to be home when they got home from school. And…

— Mary Kay Andrews

If you can quit, then quit. If you can't quit, you're a writer.

— Anonymous

I stopped writing fiction the moment I started writing songs, and I miss it.

— Jake Shears

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

— Lady Colin Campbell

I stopped working a few years ago because I just lost a spark that I'd had before. I thought I'd just try writing, and…

— Dustin Hoffman

I did always want to write. And then, when I left New York, where I was working very steadily in the theater - I…

— Jim Piddock

My novel got published, and I became a paid writer, which was nice, and then it came out, and nobody bought it, so I…

— Tom King

Though I later found a career as a journalist and an essayist, fiction is my first love and I never left it, even though…

— Andrew Lam

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