Accomplishing something Quote by Rachel Dratch

I never really wanted to write a book in the first place. Never intended to do such. I feel like I wasted a lot…

— Scarface

I'm not a writer that writes every day. I just kind of have ideas. I jot them down when I have them, and when…

— Dee Rees

Initially I only decided to try and write a novel because I wasn't getting enough screenwriting work. It wasn't a long-held ambition, and certainly…

— Stef Penney

Getting a book published made me feel a little bit sad... I felt driven by the need to write a book, rather than the…

— Nicole Krauss

I always wanted to write. While I was on a long surf trip, supporting myself with various day jobs, I was working hard on…

— William Finnegan

Because I'm such a creative person, and I've always got my nose in a book, I suppose it was only a matter of time…

— Paul Kane

Eventually, I realised that I wanted to try to create something myself, and that's what writing novels is. Not because I wanted to put…

— Chris Pavone

If you think about writing a book, or when I did, it seems daunting, but when I began writing, it just started flowing.

— Jimmy O. Yang

I didn't really get serious about my own writing until I was convinced it was something that I wanted to do, that I wanted…

— Owen King

I've always wanted to write a book. And it turned out that it was more about finding a story that I felt I was…

— Hank Green

I knew I wanted to write novels, but I could not finish what I started. The closer I got, the more ways I'd find…

— Steven Pressfield

I always wanted to write novels, even before I had read a lot of novels or had a very good idea of what they…

— Elif Batuman