Children Quote by Grace Paley

I never wanted to be a writer; I just had stories I needed to tell.

— Sefi Atta

I've always wanted to be a writer. I've been writing since I was probably four years old - it was nonsense, but it was…

— Roxane Gay

I started writing because I wanted to write scripts, but I wasn't very good at it. Then I started writing short stories, sort of…

— Jasper Fforde

I always wanted to be a writer, and I did want to be a novelist. In college I took a couple of classes that…

— Anne Fadiman

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

— Lady Colin Campbell

I have known I wanted to be a writer since I was seven-years-old. Seriously. In the second grade I wrote a 21-page story and…

— Renee Watson

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

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

I'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more.

— Michael Morpurgo

I had wanted to be a novelist for so long, but I didn't have a story. That story came from the death of my…

— Robert Crais

I've just always written, and always considered myself a writer. I wrote my first story when I was five. There was nothing else I…

— Jami Attenberg

I wanted to be a writer since I was a little girl - long before I was a musician and a songwriter.

— Juliana Hatfield

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

— Salman Rushdie