Drama Quote by John Grisham

I had wanted to be a novelist for so long, but I didn't have a story. That story came from the death of my…

— Robert Crais

Writing is a passion I have never understood, yet a storyteller is all I have ever wanted to be.

— Ruth Park

The only reason I became a writer was so I could exist on a piece of paper.

— Jose Antonio Vargas

I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.

— Jon Krakauer

I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

— Octavia E. Butler

I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me.

— Patrick Modiano

Realistic writing kept me stable. It kept my mind less clustered by resting my soul; pouring it onto a blank canvas. I did not…

— Needa Muy

This sounds like a cliche, but I always wanted to write. After college, I did some writing and realized very quickly that it's hard…

— Hooman Majd

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

— Dustin Lance Black

I always wanted to write novels, even before I had read a lot of novels or had a very good idea of what they…

— Elif Batuman

I have never written a play, a story, a poem, or my one film - anything - unless something was troubling me enough, wrecking…

— Israel Horovitz

I became a writer because during several of the most important years of my life, writing seemed to me to be the most unreal,…

— William Saroyan