Before Quote by Kent Haruf

All I've wanted to do is write. In school I just wanted to be a writer but I was afraid to be a writer…

— Eoin Macken

The first thing I tried to write was a novel, when I took that time off in grad school. Then I didn't finish it.…

— Elif Batuman

I always wanted to be a writer since I was around 12 years old and I wrote my first book.

— Cassandra Clare

Somewhere along the line, I realized that I liked telling stories, and I decided that I would try writing. Ten years later, I finally…

— Janet Evanovich

Writing is the toughest thing I've ever done.

— Richard M. Nixon

Writing wasn't easy to start. After I finally did it, I realized it was the most direct contact possible with the part of myself…

— Virpi Hameen-Anttila

I always wanted to write. While I was on a long surf trip, supporting myself with various day jobs, I was working hard on…

— William Finnegan

Wrote my first "novel" when I was six. Studied a bit in college, but then pursued history... But when I started writing professionally, it…

— David B. Coe

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of…

— Tracy Kidder

Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote…

— Octavia Butler

Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more…

— Ernest Hemingway

I never wanted to be a writer initially. It was not my thing, but I was an avid reader.

— Dustin Lance Black