Findings Quote by Jason Diamond

You can't want to be a writer. You have to be one.

— Paul Theroux

I always just wanted to be a writer, not necessarily a particular kind of writer.

— Jill Lepore

Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.

— J. B. Priestley

Being a writer is great because you get to come up with stuff.

— Courtney A. Kemp

One has to live a life that creates a writer.

— Erno Paasilinna

...One reason I became a writer was that I figured out that if you call yourself a writer, you can read all you want…

— Katherine Paterson

I have always aspired to be a writer, be it as an author or a screenwriter, whatever the medium.

— Kanika Dhillon

I love being a writer so much that I almost can't believe that I am one.

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

You have to live a life to become a writer.

— Joel Surnow

When people say, Did you always want to be a writer?, I have to say no! I always WAS a writer.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.

— Harlan Ellison

I pretty much always wanted to be a writer.

— Jane Goldman