Becoming Quote by Ed Kashi

I grew up loving books and stories. Reading became my favourite pastime, and you have to be a reader before you can be a…

— Sandra Brown

I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens…

— Russell Banks

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

One of the epiphanies I had was that I got into publishing because I love literature.

— Chris Pavone

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

I have always loved to read, and now that I have penned 10 novels and a few magazine articles, I have fallen seriously in…

— Dorothea Benton Frank

I became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father.

— Salman Rushdie

First and foremost, I consider myself a storyteller. And I'm endlessly fascinated with people, with what they do and why... and how they feel…

— Debbie Macomber

I became obsessed with the storytelling of photography and going on little adventures.

— Cole Sprouse

I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.

— Karen Thompson Walker

I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was about 30…

— Paul Auster

Growing up, I mostly read comic books and sci-fi. Then I discovered the book 'Jane Eyre' by Jane Austen. It introduced me to the…

— Meg Cabot