Library Quote by Sandra Cisneros

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

— Lady Colin Campbell

I think I told my parents I wanted to be a writer, just so they'd kind of think I had some direction in life.…

— Kyle Kinane

My mother wanted me to be a writer, which I have ended up taking a long road round to.

— Mick Foley

I was someone who wanted to be a writer but who wasn't writing. I was someone buying books on writing. I was someone telling…

— Kate DiCamillo

I always wanted to be a writer.

— Jung Chang

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

When I was young, I never thought I was going to be a writer! I was academically orientated and active at sports, but I…

— Amish Tripathi

I told my parents when I was 12 I'd be a writer.

— bell hooks

...One reason I became a writer was that I figured out that if you call yourself a writer, you can read all you want…

— Katherine Paterson

I attended Art & Design High School, and at one point, you had to write about what you wanted to be when you grew…

— Amy Heckerling

I pretty much always wanted to be a writer.

— Jane Goldman