Behinds Quote by Ray Bradbury

I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me.

— Patrick Modiano

I have never done anything except write, but I don't possess the vocation or talents of a narrator, have no knowledge at all of…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

I considered that I had to write stories about the people I had met, with whom I'd worked, the history of my books -…

— Anatoly Rybakov

I'm a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I just knew that there…

— Chinua Achebe

My great fear of being attacked or trivialized by my contemporaries made me concentrate on what I was trying to do as a writer.…

— Pat Conroy

I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible.

— A. S. Byatt

I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn't know what else to do about…

— Patti Davis

Wrote my first "novel" when I was six. Studied a bit in college, but then pursued history... But when I started writing professionally, it…

— David B. Coe

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 tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in…

— Janet Fitch

I write to relieve an intellectual itch. I stumble across a hitherto neglected set of events, transformations, characters, or source materials from the past,…

— Linda Colley