Writing Quote by James Salter

I'd wanted to be a writer since I was knee-high. Once I knew that books were written by people and didn't just happen, it…

— Jon Spaihts

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

— Lady Colin Campbell

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

— Thomas Keneally

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

— Douglas Coupland

Writing happened to me. I didn't decide to start writing or to be a writer. I never wanted to be a writer.

— Robert Gottlieb

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

— Jose Antonio Vargas

I just knew I would be a writer. It just seemed the only sensible thing to do.

— Jane Gardam

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

All I'd ever wanted to do in my life was write and publish books, and woe to anyone who stood in my way.

— Jenna Blum

If somebody gave you several thousand dollars and nothin' to do but write, would you be a writer then? Would you tell your stories,…

— Dorothy Allison

I did not consider that I would lead a literary life. I'd thought initially, as a young girl, that I would be a teacher,…

— Joyce Carol Oates

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

— Francois Truffaut