Growing up Quote by Judy Blume

I've wanted to be a writer since I was seven, but I didn't grow up in family where people aspired to live as writers.

— Jacqueline Woodson

When I was really young I didn't know that there was such a thing as a screenwriter. I wrote stories.

— John Sayles

I was a novelist before I was a TV screenwriter. Actually, as a kid, I think I'd always wanted to be a writer, but…

— Ben Richards

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

— Jon Krakauer

Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Writers aren't exactly people...they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person.

— F Scott Fitzgerald

It's easy, after all, not to be a writer. Most people aren't writers, and very little harm comes to them.

— Julian Barnes

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

Nobody ever became a writer just by wanting to be one.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

— Sefi Atta

You were born with the seeds of your talent, the ability to observe the world around you and weave piece of it into a…

— Laurie Halse Anderson