Books Quote by Harper Lee

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.

— J. K. Rowling

Eventually, I realised that I wanted to try to create something myself, and that's what writing novels is. Not because I wanted to put…

— Chris Pavone

I wanted to be a novelist for so long.

— Alice Sebold

I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of…

— E. O. Wilson

Ever since I was in my teens I had plans at one point in my life to write a novel.

— Jo Nesbo

I always wanted to write. While I was on a long surf trip, supporting myself with various day jobs, I was working hard on…

— William Finnegan

I knew I wanted to write novels, but I could not finish what I started. The closer I got, the more ways I'd find…

— Steven Pressfield

I always wanted to write novels, even before I had read a lot of novels or had a very good idea of what they…

— Elif Batuman

I'd wanted to be a writer since I was knee-high. Once I knew that books were written by people and didn't just happen, it…

— Jon Spaihts

I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.

— Francois Truffaut

A reason I became a writer was to escape the hopelessness and despair of the real world and enter the world of hope I…

— Ray Bradbury

I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking, 'I really want to write a novel.

— Amy Waldman