Bags Quote by Richard Meltzer

I've been writing as long as I've been able to form words. I never wrote with an idea of publishing anything until I began…

— Harper Lee

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

I always wanted to write. But honestly I'm glad I didn't do it back when I was twenty-five or so, when it's now clear…

— Chris Pavone

For a while, when I got out of college, I tried to write fiction. I'd grown up more around novelists, and my initial attraction…

— David Grann

I thought of myself as a writer for years before I got around to writing anything.

— E. L. Doctorow

I've always written a little bit. I mean, I've written screenplays, and I've doctored my dialogue for years, and I've written speeches - I…

— Rob Lowe

Writers don't write writing, they write reading. When I was a kid, I read four or five books a week. And that is how…

— Avi

I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway.

— Joyce Carol Oates

I never wanted to be a writer initially. It was not my thing, but I was an avid reader.

— Dustin Lance Black

I may not have become a good writer, but I managed to make a living out of writing.

— Ruskin Bond

I didn't know how to be a writer. But I thought, 'I can do this.'

— Karen Robards

I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day,…

— Daniel Pinkwater