Choices Quote by Mary Oliver

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 wanted to be involved with literature. I certainly wasn't going to be able to write for a living, and I didn't have enough…

— Jonathan W. Galassi

The truth is, I hadn't grown up really wanting to be a writer. The whole thing was a weird aberration in some ways, and…

— Alex Garland

I had a 20-year career. I have two children. The advantage of writing later in my life is that I already had a whole…

— Amor Towles

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

What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able to write... Maybe the…

— Paul Di Filippo

Still, I kept writing. I had no guarantee that I would someday win awards for writing. Heavens, the only person during that time who…

— Katherine Paterson

I suppose if I didn't write for a living and it couldn't be published, I would have wanted to write anyway. I think there's…

— Decca Aitkenhead

Before I published anything, I dreamed of publication, but I didn't actually write for it. I imagined that writing for an audience was something…

— Ariel Gore

For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them…

— Laura Hillenbrand

Becoming a writer wasn't a choice (there would have been far more worthwhile things to do); it was the best, most fruitful way of…

— Alain de Botton

Writing was the soul of everything else ... Wanting to be a writer was wanting to be a person.

— Patricia Hampl