Academic Quote by George Lucas

Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer.

— George Lucas

I became a writer because during several of the most important years of my life, writing seemed to me to be the most unreal,…

— William Saroyan

I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that…

— Liev Schreiber

Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was never far…

— Alex Flinn

I did not consider that I would lead a literary life. I'd thought initially, as a young girl, that I would be a teacher,…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I was a novelist before I was a TV screenwriter. Actually, as a kid, I think I'd always wanted to be a writer, but…

— Ben Richards

If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.

— Quentin Tarantino

I may not have become a good writer, but I managed to make a living out of writing.

— Ruskin Bond

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

— A. S. Byatt

I studied to be a journalist, but I don't think I would have made a very good one. I don't have the work ethic.

— Ben Howard

The truth is, I hadn't grown up really wanting to be a writer. The whole thing was a weird aberration in some ways, and…

— Alex Garland

I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.

— Haruki Murakami