Being jealous Quote by Louise Penny

I became a writer out of the desire to express myself.

— Pankaj Kapur

At thirty-five, having spent over twenty years running varied businesses for my family, I decided to sit down and write my first novel. I…

— Ashwin Sanghi

I always wanted to write. But honestly I'm glad I didn't do it back when I was twenty-five or so, when it's now clear…

— Chris Pavone

I became a writer because during several of the most important years of my life, writing seemed to me to be the most unreal,…

— William Saroyan

Eventually, I realised that I wanted to try to create something myself, and that's what writing novels is. Not because I wanted to put…

— Chris Pavone

The two years I spent solely writing for other people kind of took me away from myself.

— LP

I wrote for many years without showing my writing to anyone, because I was constantly comparing it to what I was reading. You have…

— Pankaj Mishra

It was failing part of my Ph.D. that led me into novel-writing. By then I was 29, had remarried and had a second baby.…

— Kate Atkinson

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

I didn't start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my hometown. I…

— Julianna Baggott

For a while, when I got out of college, I tried to write fiction. I'd grown up more around novelists, and my initial attraction…

— David Grann

I tried once in my life to write a novel. I had written something like 80 pages of it when my laptop got stolen.…

— Etgar Keret