Become Quote by Hilary Mantel

I'd given up everything to be a writer, and if I didn't then go on to do that - to write - then I…

— James Salter

Had my credentials been in order I would never have become a writer. Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own…

— Joan Didion

Everyone who knew me as a child, they say they're not surprised that I became a writer because I wrote all the time. I…

— Jamaica Kincaid

The truth is, I hadn't grown up really wanting to be a writer. The whole thing was a weird aberration in some ways, and…

— Alex Garland

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

— Thomas Keneally

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 was always meant to be a writer. I've felt that way since I was a child.

— Tess Gerritsen

I think writing would have happened to me anyway, somehow. Differently, but it still would have happened.

— Douglas Coupland

I'm a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I just knew that there…

— Chinua Achebe

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

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

— Jose Antonio Vargas

“How well I would write if I were not here! If between the white page and the writing of words and stories that take…

— Italo Calvino