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Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years and published…

— Kent Haruf

I wrote for years before I was ever published, and I don't think I could ever stop. That said, I was also a veterinarian…

— James Rollins

Growing up, nobody I knew even knew a writer. So it was a big adventure and something that I've wrestled with my whole life.…

— Candace Bushnell

In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.

— Kate Morton

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

I may not have become a good writer, but I managed to make a living out of writing.

— Ruskin Bond

Why did I become a writer? A bird's feather on my windowpane in winter and all at once there arose in my heart a…

— Rene Char

Writing was my first occupation, begun at age 23.

— Johanna Lindsey

I've carved out a career for myself really as a writer.

— Tori Amos

When I was about 14 or 15 I decided to become a writer and never for a moment since have I wanted to do anything else.

— Tobias Wolff

In the usual way I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish…

— Tanith Lee

I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.

— Sue Grafton