Character Quote by Genesis P-Orridge

I always knew I wanted to write really imaginative fiction - fiction that was very different from my real life.

— Danielle Trussoni

When I was a child, I loved making stories, so I thought maybe I would be a novelist.

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

I thought I was going to write fiction but I fell backwards into non-fiction. It started when I got locked out of two apartments…

— Sloane Crosley

This sounds like a cliche, but I always wanted to write. After college, I did some writing and realized very quickly that it's hard…

— Hooman Majd

I wrote a novel, so now they can call me a novelist. I tell stories; that's it.

— Nathan Englander

The thing I liked about writing about food when I started it was that I felt I was writing about food in a different…

— Nigella Lawson

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

— Francois Truffaut

I was always inventing characters and making up stories.

— Suzanne Vega

At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.

— David Nicholls

For a while, when I got out of college, I tried to write fiction. I'd grown up more around novelists, and my initial attraction…

— David Grann

I was inspired to become a writer by horror movies and science fiction.

— Colson Whitehead

I write because I have always been curious about what it would feel like to be someone else, in a different situation. Fiction is…

— Gillian Cross