Evolve Quote by Patti Smith

I could never really decide what I wanted to be when I grew up, and for a while, I thought that maybe I wanted…

— Christina Tosi

When I was growing up in the Philippines, the story that was read to me most was Pinocchio.

— Reggie Lee

When I was little, I had to write down what I wanted to be when I grew up, and I wrote, 'I want to…

— Ellen Greene

One of the reasons I began to write was because I wanted stories for my children where the characters spoke as they did and…

— Theresa Breslin

I pretty much always knew I wanted to be a writer. I was writing goofy stories when I was 7 or 8. That was…

— Ellen Potter

I wanted to write something in a voice that was unique to who I was. And I wanted something that was accessible to the…

— Sandra Cisneros

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.

— Goh Chok Tong

I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be…

— Cynthia Ozick

I've always wanted to be a writer ever since I was in kindergarten, so that was ultimately what I wanted to do with my…

— Angela Yee

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

— Fannie Flagg

Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote…

— Octavia Butler

I wanted to become a director before I wanted to become a writer. When I was 10, people would ask me what I wanted…

— Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt