Writing Quote by James Avery

I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to say something about home.

— Ernest Gaines

I never really knew I wanted to 'be' a writer, but I was always writing from a very young age. It became more conscious…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I wanted to be a writer and I ended up being a writer.

— Lady Colin Campbell

When I was about 14 or 15 I decided to become a writer and never for a moment since have I wanted to do anything else.

— Tobias Wolff

When I dropped out of high school at age 16, I didn't know I was going to become a writer - I just knew…

— Philipp Meyer

Returning to writing fiction after 13 years away from it. Returning to the rootstock of my whole life as a writer. It's what I…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

As a kid, I hated home, and I just wanted so much to learn or do something that could take me away and keep…

— Beth Hart

I was a very driven person, wanting to help and to do good, hopefully to write and teach in a meaningful way - wanting…

— Mark Nepo

It wasn't a leap for me to go from not wanting to be in my body as a teenager, not wanting to be in…

— Charles Bock

I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do anything else.…

— Paul Auster

I've wanted to be a writer since I was seven, but I didn't grow up in family where people aspired to live as writers.

— Jacqueline Woodson

As a teenager, I felt so hemmed in and trapped, both by the place I lived and the expectations others had about school, college,…

— Sabaa Tahir