Agents Quote by Jami Attenberg

I wanted to be involved with literature. I certainly wasn't going to be able to write for a living, and I didn't have enough…

— Jonathan W. Galassi

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

Talking to all those great writers and artists for the magazine was a form of graduate school for me.

— Christopher Bollen

I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.

— Walter Jon Williams

I went to graduate school with zero expectation. I kind of backed into it. I wanted to go back to school because I felt…

— Susan Minot

I've been a writer my whole life. I've just never pursued a career in it since I graduated college.

— Scheana Shay

I had in effect been thrown out of graduate school because I was a lousy graduate student, and I had to find a job,…

— Ted Kooser

In high school, I was very active in extracurricular activities such as art, theatre, and choir. I also wrote for the school newspaper, but…

— Meg Cabot

I never wanted to be a writer initially. It was not my thing, but I was an avid reader.

— Dustin Lance Black

I never wanted to be a writer; I just had stories I needed to tell.

— Sefi Atta

I don't know if I have a memory of not thinking I was a writer - it goes that far back. I went to…

— Elizabeth Strout

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

— Alex Garland