People Quote by J.I.D

I decided early that I would be a writer when I grew up. That, I thought, was the profession that went with the kind…

— Ariel Levy

I knew I wanted to be a writer and I knew if I had a wife and family, I would neglect something, and I…

— Ernest Gaines

My mother raised me to be a writer.

— Pat Conroy

I came from a practical family. The idea of being a writer seemed impossible to me.

— Crystal Hana Kim

I didn't intend to be writing - the writer's life. I was just writing what came to me at the time, but it is…

— Sandra Cisneros

“Being a writer is something I love to do, plus I get independence. It’s a great job for a woman because she can work…

— Anne Mather

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

— Tess Gerritsen

I found that married life gave me the necessary freedom to follow an ambition which had been with me since childhood; and so I…

— Jean Plaidy

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

If my mother hadn't been trying to be a writer, I don't know if I would have thought of it myself.

— John Updike

I thought of myself as a writer for years before I got around to writing anything.

— E. L. Doctorow

I became a writer because I am the youngest of six children. I listen; I observe. I'm camouflaged as a moth. Mothers are unseen.…

— Samantha Hunt