Able Quote by Meg Cabot

I'd given up everything to be a writer, and if I didn't then go on to do that - to write - then I…

— James Salter

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

I did not consider that I would lead a literary life. I'd thought initially, as a young girl, that I would be a teacher,…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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

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 was the kind of person who knew what he wanted to do; I wanted to write, I wanted not to be in school,…

— Neil Gaiman

One of the things I learned from my father, and it did not serve me well at all, was that he was a successful…

— Michael Tolkin

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 think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me.

— Patrick Modiano

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

When I was growing up, I had no idea that I could possibly become a writer. I wrote endlessly in journals - a practice…

— Dani Shapiro