Desire Quote by Pankaj Kapur

I think I became [writer] despite myself - tricking myself into it, really.

— Vera Nazarian

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

— E. L. Doctorow

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

— Tess Gerritsen

I longed to be a writer, always wanted to be a writer.

— Fannie Flagg

Sometimes, in my published complaints about not being a writer, I have recalled the prospect - the yearning to be a writer - as…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

The only reason I became a writer was so I could exist on a piece of paper.

— Jose Antonio Vargas

I wanted to be a writer and I ended up being a writer.

— Lady Colin Campbell

A reason I became a writer was to escape the hopelessness and despair of the real world and enter the world of hope I…

— Ray Bradbury

I became a writer in spite of my environments.

— Robert E. Howard

I became a writer because during several of the most important years of my life, writing seemed to me to be the most unreal,…

— William Saroyan

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

— Ruskin Bond

I didn't start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my hometown. I…

— Julianna Baggott