Access Quote by Joan Didion

Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own mind there would have been no reason to write.

— Joan Didion

I never even dreamt of being a writer because I didn't feel allowed. When I was a child I was terribly ambitious, but I…

— Amelie Nothomb

I often wonder if I had the complete freedom to not have to write, if I would write. That's the one mystery that I…

— Nick Tosches

I'd given up everything to be a writer, and if I didn't then go on to do that - to write - then I…

— James Salter

When I was growing up, I had no idea that I could possibly become a writer. I wrote endlessly in journals - a practice…

— Dani Shapiro

There was a terrible fear for me when I started writing, which was that if you'd been denied unbelievably tumultuous experience, you didn't have…

— Nathan Englander

I always wanted to be a writer, and I did want to be a novelist. In college I took a couple of classes that…

— Anne Fadiman

I suppose if I didn't write for a living and it couldn't be published, I would have wanted to write anyway. I think there's…

— Decca Aitkenhead

When I was young, I wrote everything, and I thought I would be an all around writer, that I would write everything.

— Edward Hirsch

There is and always has been for me a peculiar need to write. This is very different from wanting to be a writer. To…

— Patricia Wentworth

What I found so captivating about the idea of being a writer was having the ability to write down all these things I made…

— Kameron Hurley

I thought of myself as a writer for years before I got around to writing anything.

— E. L. Doctorow