Artistic Quote by Graham Swift

I came from a practical family. The idea of being a writer seemed impossible to me.

— Crystal Hana Kim

I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of artistic people to solve. And…

— Wallace Shawn

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

Why had I become a writer in the first place? Because I wasn't fit for society; I didn't fit into the system.

— Brian Aldiss

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've wanted to be a writer since I was seven, but I didn't grow up in family where people aspired to live as writers.

— Jacqueline Woodson

My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a…

— Caitlin Flanagan

Almost all of my early art dealt with the fallout from middle-class taboos, the messy, the ambivalent emotions couples felt, the inherent racism, the…

— Eric Fischl

I became a writer not because my father was one - my father made false teeth for a living. I became a writer because…

— Richard Rodriguez

When I think of my background, if I was privileged on any level, it was in terms of the kind of exposure to experience…

— Edward Norton

I wasnt always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then I was a stay-at-home…

— Janet Evanovich

I became a degenerate artist. My parents were shaped by their own experiences, and artists weren't so useful in the death camps.

— Art Spiegelman