China Quote by Ha Jin

Whatever China I'd been born into, I would probably still have become a painter - I loved sketching portraits as a child, and began…

— Ma Jian

When I was a little kid back in Moscow, Russia, I've always thought I would become an artist or a folk dancer or an…

— Vera Nazarian

I had this vague notion that one day I might be editor of 'Vogue China.' It was a bizarre ambition, as I didn't speak…

— Katie McGrath

The only reason I became a writer was so I could exist on a piece of paper.

— Jose Antonio Vargas

I had a calling to become what I became - I was created to do this.

— La Monte Young

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

You can be anything. You could be the President of the United States or the inventor of the next Internet or a ninja cardio-thoracic…

— Cameron Russell

I suppose I would still be a communicator, maybe a musician.

— Conrad Hall

I came from a lower-middle-class postwar family in a time of austerity and retrenchment, with no one in the family who was in any…

— Graham Swift

I never felt like a Chinese citizen because I was pushed away at a very young age. My father, a writer, was a national…

— Ai Weiwei

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 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