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

— Michael Morpurgo

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 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

Somewhere along the line, I realized that I liked telling stories, and I decided that I would try writing. Ten years later, I finally…

— Janet Evanovich

I just loved storytelling. That's what I thought I would end up doing. I thought I would probably go to school and end up…

— Michelle Rodriguez

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'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing.

— Steve Toltz

I've always wanted to be a novelist, so I just try to write really great narrative.

— Peter Heller

I didn't do anything as active as deciding that I wanted to be a writer. For one thing, I didn't feel like I was…

— Kelly Link

It's hard to say when my interest in writing began, or how. My mother read to my sister and me every night, and we…

— Sara Zarr

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 always liked to write and had fun writing, but I didn't have any pretensions about being a writer. I liked to read and…

— John Edgar Wideman