Academy Quote by Hassan Blasim

I took two years away from making films to write a novel.

— Neil Jordan

When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.

— Elizabeth Moon

I wanted to be a writer, but the idea of writing novels or movies seemed really intimidating. I never got more than a few…

— Kurt Busiek

I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists.

— William Gibson

One of the epiphanies I had was that I got into publishing because I love literature.

— Chris Pavone

Though I later found a career as a journalist and an essayist, fiction is my first love and I never left it, even though…

— Andrew Lam

I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.

— Peter Straub

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

— Richard Linklater

When I graduated college I needed to make money while I was pursuing acting, so I read screenplays and made a living writing coverage…

— Sasha Alexander

Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story.

— Sidney Sheldon

Most of my life, I thought that I would end up a novelist. But then, in New York City, after college, I started a…

— Jon Spaihts