Anymore Quote by Natalie Babbitt

I never wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a book illustrator. I used to hurry home from school and draw.

— Natalie Babbitt

Initially I only decided to try and write a novel because I wasn't getting enough screenwriting work. It wasn't a long-held ambition, and certainly…

— Stef Penney

I'm a professional. So before I published any novels, I'd always been writing stories.

— Jess Walter

But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.

— Patricia Cornwell

I didn't intend to become a short-story writer. I became one because I finished a couple of short stories and realized that's what I…

— Grace Paley

For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel,

— Alice Munro

I had wanted to be a writer for a very long time, but I had no talent for finishing books. I would start them,…

— Leigh Bardugo

I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at…

— Amy Tan

I didn't really start to write until I was almost 30, and I started with the short stories.

— Kate DiCamillo

When I'm feeling frustrated with a story, I have faith that it's going to come. Also, when I first started writing, I wanted to…

— Jacqueline Woodson

From the beginning, when I first got an idea for a story and wondered if I could write it, it has always been the…

— Jean M. Auel

Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to…

— Kate Atkinson