Belief Quote by Min Jin Lee

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

...One reason I became a writer was that I figured out that if you call yourself a writer, you can read all you want…

— Katherine Paterson

Somewhere along the line, I realized that I liked telling stories, and I decided that I would try writing. Ten years later, I finally…

— Janet Evanovich

I've always been a writer, actually. Not many people assume that, but I kinda keep quiet about anything that I do until I'm ready…

— Ryan Guzman

I was writing for myself, not to be published. I was writing diaries, even letters, to myself or to anyone I was angry at.…

— Katie Piper

It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the…

— Don DeLillo

For several decades, I believed it was necessary to be extraordinary if you wanted to write, and since I wasn't, I gave up my…

— Diane Setterfield

I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it…

— Gwendolyn Brooks

I've been a writer my whole life.

— Scheana Shay

I thought of myself as a writer for years before I got around to writing anything.

— E. L. Doctorow

I've been writing since I'm five years old. I've been writing books since high school - junior high, high school. I write every single…

— Karrine Steffans

I was always meant to be a writer. I've felt that way since I was a child.

— Tess Gerritsen