Big Quote by Lauren Ridloff

My goal was to do anything that would lead to a job. I know that writing would not lead to a job. It's too…

— Anchee Min

I come to writing the same way I come to teaching, which is that my goal is always to create life-long readers.

— Rick Riordan

I've always wanted to be a writer ever since I was in kindergarten, so that was ultimately what I wanted to do with my…

— Angela Yee

I used to want to be a children's writer, because I would have all these great ideas when I was little, and I'd write…

— Jena Malone

I was really rudderless at one point my life. And once I started reading books, then I got the idea that maybe I could…

— George Pelecanos

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

I wanted to achieve something because I thought that we should not just be born and live, so I started writing books.

— Chef Damu

I wanted to write children's books. I felt that the best way to understand how a child thinks in their mind is to be…

— Lauren Ridloff

As a kid, I dreamt of becoming a writer. My most exciting pastime was reading novels; in fact, I would read anything I could…

— Maryam Mirzakhani

As a kid, I had this ultimate goal to be a teacher. I wanted to be a history teacher like my dad.

— Mike Trout

I have known I wanted to be a writer since I was seven-years-old. Seriously. In the second grade I wrote a 21-page story and…

— Renee Watson

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

— Cassandra Clare