Books Quote by Kate DiCamillo

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

— Lady Colin Campbell

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

— Steve Toltz

Writing happened to me. I didn't decide to start writing or to be a writer. I never wanted to be a writer.

— Robert Gottlieb

I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library.…

— Sandra Cisneros

I am a writer (and one day I'll be an author). For a long time I was a bookseller (who wrote) or a TV…

— Michael Scott

...One reason I became a writer was that I figured out that if you call yourself a writer, you can read all you want…

— Katherine Paterson

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

— Sefi Atta

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 don't really consider myself a writer, but I am writing so I guess I'm a writer.

— Meital Dohan

Everyone who knew me as a child, they say they're not surprised that I became a writer because I wrote all the time. I…

— Jamaica Kincaid

I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed

— Dan Simmons

I didn't become a writer to write about me.

— Salman Rushdie