Actress Quote by Joan Didion

“I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn’t want to be a writer. I wanted to be an…

— Joan Didion

I never had a moment of wanting to be a writer. I wanted to be an actress, but writing was just a thing I…

— Sarah Pinborough

I started as a writer; I started writing when I was little. The acting and directing was an outgrowth of my desire to tell…

— Mike White

I've always wanted to be a writer. I've been writing since I was probably four years old - it was nonsense, but it was…

— Roxane Gay

I've just always written, and always considered myself a writer. I wrote my first story when I was five. There was nothing else I…

— Jami Attenberg

I didn't intend to become a short-story writer. I became one because I finished a couple of short stories and realized that's what I…

— Grace Paley

I'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more.

— Michael Morpurgo

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

— Sefi Atta

I wanted to be a writer since I was a little girl - long before I was a musician and a songwriter.

— Juliana Hatfield

I was always writing stories, even as a kid. I always wanted to be in the plays and do that sort of thing. Screenwriting…

— Katie Wech

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

When I was a child, I loved making stories, so I thought maybe I would be a novelist.

— Hirokazu Kore-eda