I am Quote by Gore Vidal

I was never interested in acting on film or in television, but I was always more inclined to writing and directing, and the exploration…

— Sam Levinson

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

Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines.

— Rebecca Miller

If I wanted to be in movies, I'd have gone into scriptwriting: the fact that I write novels should be a big hint about…

— Charles Stross

Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed…

— Alan Dean Foster

I'd wanted to be a writer and when I came back to New York worked as a musician too, but I found my writing…

— Jim Jarmusch

Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have…

— Alan Dean Foster

I figured that to be a writer I would need to have been born in the nineteenth century, be British, or have three names.…

— Debra Dean

'The Atlantic' really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer.

— Nic Pizzolatto

When I left university I was sure that I was going to be a painter. Then I had a crisis, a revelation. I saw…

— Rebecca Miller

As a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film.

— Richard Linklater

The thing is that my first novel, which was basically a mystery adventure story, won quite an important award in Spain for young adult…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon