Back Quote by Elizabeth Strout

I've been a writer my whole life. I've just never pursued a career in it since I graduated college.

— Scheana Shay

I really had to decide why I was writing. I had no interest in going back to law; I very briefly - for about…

— Ben Fountain

I had it in my head when I was in college that I wanted to be a writer, but it took me a long…

— Kate DiCamillo

I did not intend to be a writer. I first wanted to be a lawyer, like my father. Then I got bit by the…

— Alix Kates Shulman

I really thought I wanted to be a lawyer, but then I had an epiphany when I was in law school and dropped out.…

— Jodi Kantor

I trained as a writer before I became a lawyer. I was headed for a life as an English professor, but that just wasn't…

— Scott Turow

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

— Lady Colin Campbell

I had just been in some repressive situations - the black middle-class college scene and the crazy United States Air Force - and so…

— Amiri Baraka

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 think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me.

— Patrick Modiano

I come from a working-class background and it wasn't in my world to be a writer - I had no direct access to those…

— Roisin Conaty

I wanted to be a writer since I was in high school, but I never thought it was possible.

— Ellen Bass