Books Quote by E. O. Wilson

I always wanted to write novels, even before I had read a lot of novels or had a very good idea of what they…

— Elif Batuman

It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the…

— Don DeLillo

Eventually, I realised that I wanted to try to create something myself, and that's what writing novels is. Not because I wanted to put…

— Chris Pavone

Once I discovered the endless fascination of doing the research and of doing the writing, I knew I had found what I wanted to…

— David McCullough

I always wanted to write. While I was on a long surf trip, supporting myself with various day jobs, I was working hard on…

— William Finnegan

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 hoped to be able to write a novel which would enable me to live on it while I wrote the next.

— Harper Lee

I knew I wanted to write novels, but I could not finish what I started. The closer I got, the more ways I'd find…

— Steven Pressfield

I thought of myself as a writer for years before I got around to writing anything.

— E. L. Doctorow

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

— Francois Truffaut

Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.

— Zane Grey

Initially I only decided to try and write a novel because I wasn't getting enough screenwriting work. It wasn't a long-held ambition, and certainly…

— Stef Penney