Environment Quote by Robert E. Howard

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

— Ruskin Bond

I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

I became a writer out of the desire to express myself.

— Pankaj Kapur

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 quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.

— Theodore Sturgeon

The only reason I became a writer was so I could exist on a piece of paper.

— Jose Antonio Vargas

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

The reason I became a writer is because I like sitting in dark rooms by myself, not standing on stage and talking to people.

— Cord Jefferson

I wanted to be a writer and I ended up being a writer.

— Lady Colin Campbell

I don't think I began to be a professional writer until I learned my weaknesses and what I couldn't do. This forced me to…

— Robert Cormier

I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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