About Quote by Scott Stossel

If you're too scared to put your dreams, thoughts, desires, fantasies on paper and share them with the world, then being an author isn't…

— P. C. Cast

I never even dreamt of being a writer because I didn't feel allowed. When I was a child I was terribly ambitious, but I…

— Amelie Nothomb

I was really rudderless at one point my life. And once I started reading books, then I got the idea that maybe I could…

— George Pelecanos

I don't think I anticipated supporting myself as a writer... I expected I would have to be a teacher or a journalist, that I…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of…

— David Guterson

I wrote for years before I was ever published, and I don't think I could ever stop. That said, I was also a veterinarian…

— James Rollins

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

— Dustin Lance Black

I think if I had done anything else I would like to have been a doctor. This is the sort of polar opposition to…

— Sylvia Plath

Had my credentials been in order I would never have become a writer. Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own…

— Joan Didion

I'm still not sure what pulled me into the career I chose, even though, now, I can't imagine having done anything else. Mostly, I…

— Peter Gzowski

Many years ago I had two small children, and I wanted to be able to be home when they got home from school. And…

— Mary Kay Andrews

I never wanted to be an editor. I never wanted to be a boss. I just wanted to write, and it didn't make any…

— Frank Deford