People Quote by Josh Lawson

I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day,…

— Daniel Pinkwater

I didn't start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my hometown. I…

— Julianna Baggott

I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at…

— Amy Tan

I started writing when I was a journalist. But every time I sat down to write a novel or a story, I ended up…

— Damian Barr

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

— Sefi Atta

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

— Steve Toltz

I always wanted to write. But honestly I'm glad I didn't do it back when I was twenty-five or so, when it's now clear…

— Chris Pavone

I thought of myself as a writer for years before I got around to writing anything.

— E. L. Doctorow

I guess I've always wanted to create my own stories, but writing was one of those things where I thought that I would never…

— Erin Maya Darke

I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk.

— Gloria Steinem

I've spent most of my life writing and developing everything that I've wanted to be in - which is why I started writing in…

— Alex Borstein