Allowed Quote by Robert Crais

I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at…

— Amy Tan

I always wanted to be a writer, and I did want to be a novelist. In college I took a couple of classes that…

— Anne Fadiman

I have known I wanted to be a writer since I was seven-years-old. Seriously. In the second grade I wrote a 21-page story and…

— Renee Watson

I was so sure I wanted to be a novelist. I would spend hours and hours every day writing. Little stories about nothing in…

— Samantha Shannon

When I got older I decided I wanted to be a real writer. I tried to write about real things. I wanted to describe…

— Nicole Krauss

I became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father.

— Salman Rushdie

I never wanted to be a writer; I just had stories I needed to tell.

— Sefi Atta

I've always wanted to be a writer. I've been writing since I was probably four years old - it was nonsense, but it was…

— Roxane Gay

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 didn't intend to become a short-story writer. I became one because I finished a couple of short stories and realized that's what I…

— Grace Paley

All I've wanted to do is write. In school I just wanted to be a writer but I was afraid to be a writer…

— Eoin Macken

A reason I became a writer was to escape the hopelessness and despair of the real world and enter the world of hope I…

— Ray Bradbury