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I was a very, intensely private person before this all began. I've never wanted to be famous, and I still don't. I don't really…

— Evangeline Lilly

I realized that my identity as a novelist was private. Only I knew how much of a novelist I was!

— Alexander Chee

Before I published anything, I dreamed of publication, but I didn't actually write for it. I imagined that writing for an audience was something…

— Ariel Gore

I didn't start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my hometown. I…

— Julianna Baggott

If you're writing, you're starting in private. It can really be this amazing, private, freeing experience. Forget that it's for other people - that…

— Lena Dunham

I realized that even though I had this urge, this longing, to write about other people, in order for it to be emotionally gripping,…

— Jens Lekman

I never felt like I left, I think before anything I am a writer and that's something that I do almost everyday. So it…

— Jhene Aiko

I don't know if I had ever found my place in the world until I fully committed to being a writer.

— Jami Attenberg

I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.

— Danielle Steel

I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my…

— George Orwell

I'm not writing non-fiction. I don't feel anything about me as a kid was unique. Except that I had more interest in being alone…

— John Irving

My first two novels were set in the past, and that freed me up in a lot of ways; it allowed me to find…

— Jennifer Gilmore