Ability Quote by Paula Vogel

I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.

— Walter Jon Williams

As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never made use…

— Ayelet Waldman

I decided to become an author when my grandmother taught me to write, when I was six. I can still recall the sensation of…

— Henning Mankell

I'm a writer and writers either have good memories or nothing at all.

— Maya Angelou

The act of writing is for me often nothing more than the secret or conscious desire to carve words on a tombstone: to the…

— Elie Wiesel

As long as I can remember, I wanted to be a writer.

— Michael Easton

I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well.

— Arthur C. Clarke

“No kind of writing lodges itself so deeply in our memory, echoing there for the rest of our lives, as the books that we…

— William Zinsser

I also did a great amount of writing while doing research. It gave me the opportunity to meet and talk to people other than…

— Sasa Stanisic

“Writers have influenced thoughts, principals, viewpoints and experiences throughout history. A talented writer’s pen is anointed with magic!”

— C. Toni Graham

I'm sometimes asked how I would like to be remembered. I've had a diverse career as a writer, underwater explorer, space promoter and science…

— Arthur C. Clarke

Had my credentials been in order I would never have become a writer. Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own…

— Joan Didion