Anything Quote by Patrick Modiano

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 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

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

— Jose Antonio Vargas

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

— Ruskin Bond

Writing happened to me. I didn't decide to start writing or to be a writer. I never wanted to be a writer.

— Robert Gottlieb

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

— Tess Gerritsen

I became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father.

— Salman Rushdie

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

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

— E. L. Doctorow

I can't say that I ever actually decided to become a writer. It kind of snuck up on me.

— William Landay

The truth is, I hadn't grown up really wanting to be a writer. The whole thing was a weird aberration in some ways, and…

— Alex Garland

When I was young, I never thought I was going to be a writer! I was academically orientated and active at sports, but I…

— Amish Tripathi