Happened Quote by Douglas Coupland

I'd given up everything to be a writer, and if I didn't then go on to do that - to write - then I…

— James Salter

I could have been a writer.

— Harry Dean Stanton

What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able to write... Maybe the…

— Paul Di Filippo

I think if I hadn't become a writer I would just have suppressed that part of my personality. I think I would have put…

— Hilary Mantel

I never thought I'd write, because I'd never written anything in my whole life.

— Linda Ronstadt

If as a child I had written a story, the best story that I could imagine, I would have written as indeed is happening…

— Paolo Maldini

I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.

— Francois Truffaut

If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.

— Anne Tyler

If I wrote down all the things I imagined that would happen in my life, I would've been an amazing author..

— Sachithra

I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did.

— Thomas Keneally

My writing is a product of how I would interact with things that have happened to me or things that have not happened to…

— Rupi Kaur

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