Books Quote by Peter Bichsel Download Open image “I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody.” — Peter Bichsel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Novel Said Wanted Writing
I always wanted to be a writer since I was around 12 years old and I wrote my first book. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist. — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share Image
I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer. — John Boyne Copy Share Image
I was 12. Our ,teacher made us write an autobiography and I realised that I wasn't very interesting. I began to make things up,… — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to be a writer at 13. Before that, I told everyone I was going to be an artist. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Although I always loved reading and putting words on paper, I never thought about becoming a writer until I was twelve. — Kimberly Willis Holt Copy Share Image
I was writing all my childhood. And I wrote two novels when I was 17, which were terrible. And I'm not sorry I threw… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I've just always written, and always considered myself a writer. I wrote my first story when I was five. There was nothing else I… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
When I was about 14 or 15 I decided to become a writer and never for a moment since have I wanted to do anything else. — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts. — Peter Bichsel Copy Share Image
Only that Swiss in the heart want still a king or at least a strong Upper House of Parliament. Swiss long themselves for less… — Peter Bichsel Copy Share Image
It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile. — Peter Bichsel Copy Share Image
Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems. — Peter Bichsel Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image