Chance Quote by Hilary Mantel

I didn't intend to be a novelist. I didn't intend to be anything. I thought I'd be a journalist.

— Alex Garland

I wanted to be a novelist from a very early age - 11 or 12 - but I don't think I ever thought I…

— Pat Barker

In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.

— Kate Morton

I really didnt intend to become an author, but I just happened to fall into it.

— Vikrant Parsai

I worked for a brief spell as a journalist, but soon I discovered that I didn't want to be a journalist - I wanted…

— Robert Darnton

When I was 30 or so - by that time I had become an assistant D.A. - I decided I would try to write…

— William Landay

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

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

— Francois Truffaut

I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist.

— Lena Dunham

I couldn't be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because I'm pretty optimistic.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did.

— Thomas Keneally

I can't say that I ever actually decided to become a writer. It kind of snuck up on me.

— William Landay