Father Quote by Salman Rushdie

I had wanted to be a novelist for so long, but I didn't have a story. That story came from the death of my…

— Robert Crais

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 started as a writer; I started writing when I was little. The acting and directing was an outgrowth of my desire to tell…

— Mike White

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 think I wanted to be a storyteller because I had a very active dream life. My life was boring, and I dreamed about…

— Joseph McGinty Nichol

I owe my whole career as a storyteller to my father. He was an actor/director/producer and teacher.

— John Lithgow

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

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

My father always told me I should be a writer, and I found I loved writing my autobiography; writing is such an interesting process.

— Mia Farrow

Somewhere along the line, I realized that I liked telling stories, and I decided that I would try writing. Ten years later, I finally…

— Janet Evanovich

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.

— Goh Chok Tong

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