Change Quote by Dorothy Allison

How did I change my life? I wanted things. I wanted women and I wanted to write books.

— James Ellroy

What I really wanted was every kind of life, and the writer’s life seemed the most inclusive.

— Susan Sontag

I longed to be a writer, always wanted to be a writer.

— Fannie Flagg

Nobody wanted me. I just kept writing books and learning my craft. Most writers aren't very good in the beginning.

— Phyllis A. Whitney

If your life were a book and you were the author, how would you want your story to go? That's the question that changed…

— Amy Purdy

I decided early that I would be a writer when I grew up. That, I thought, was the profession that went with the kind…

— Ariel Levy

So writing became a way to get to act in things that I thought were meaningful, and hopefully write stronger roles for other women.

— Brit Marling

I was a writer before 'Eat, Pray, Love,' and I'll be a writer after it's over. It's what I want to do for the…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I have truly been inspired by the struggle and triumphs of so many women that dare to break new ground in all aspects of…

— Christina Koch

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

Once I started getting paid to be a writer and not having lots of other gross responsibilities, like making the puzzle or whatever, then…

— Ariel Levy

I wanted to be a novelist for so long.

— Alice Sebold