Books Quote by Linwood Barclay

I'd wanted to be a writer since I was knee-high. Once I knew that books were written by people and didn't just happen, it…

— Jon Spaihts

This sounds like a cliche, but I always wanted to write. After college, I did some writing and realized very quickly that it's hard…

— Hooman Majd

I wanted to be a writer since I was in high school, but I never thought it was possible.

— Ellen Bass

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

I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime

— Anne McCaffrey

I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.

— Nora Roberts

My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or six books, I wasn't making enough…

— Ian Rankin

There are people who have never studied writing who are capable of being writers. I know this because I am an example. I was…

— Elizabeth Berg

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

I guess I've always been an aspiring novelist. I went to Princeton and wrote a novel for my thesis.

— Howard Gordon

I wanted to be a novelist for so long.

— Alice Sebold

From about ninth grade on, I knew I was a writer at heart. I had fantasies of being a great novelist, but I thought…

— Kevin Maney