Able Quote by Jonathan Lethem

I would have been an artist, because I studied art and history in school and college.

— Gauri Khan

I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I had become a film director because I thought I could express something in an artful way.

— Paul Verhoeven

I could have been a writer.

— Harry Dean Stanton

Maybe I would have become an actor. I was a very outgoing kid, but being in the hospital - being outside of social action…

— Brent Runyon

I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.

— Lynn Shelton

Before that I wanted to be a magazine illustrator - I probably would have painted Gothic scenes.

— Ira Levin

If I couldn't be a fiction writer, I would be a roller coaster designer for theme parks

— Mike Wells

I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an…

— Caleb Carr

I would have been an archaeologist or something, maybe a historian. There are a lot of things I would have liked to have done…

— Chaka Khan

I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.

— Charlie Rose

I'd been on all the television programs as an actor, as a writer, as a director, as a producer.

— James Lipton