Books Quote by Jose Saramago

I've carved out a career for myself really as a writer.

— Tori Amos

I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.

— Naguib Mahfouz

I wanted to be a writer and I ended up being a writer.

— Lady Colin Campbell

I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of…

— E. O. Wilson

I may not have become a good writer, but I managed to make a living out of writing.

— Ruskin Bond

I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I'm enormously…

— Vikram Seth

In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.

— Kate Morton

I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.

— Hannah Kent

I entered a poem in a poetry contest around 1987, and the poem won and I received $1,000 for it. That made me realize…

— Sharon Creech

I used to split my time between writing, music and painting. I would work on a book and then abandon it, start a band,…

— Isaac Marion

I wanted to be involved with literature. I certainly wasn't going to be able to write for a living, and I didn't have enough…

— Jonathan W. Galassi

I wanted to be a novelist for so long.

— Alice Sebold