Attitude Quote by Scott Turow

I don't know if I have a memory of not thinking I was a writer - it goes that far back. I went to…

— Elizabeth Strout

I did not intend to be a writer. I first wanted to be a lawyer, like my father. Then I got bit by the…

— Alix Kates Shulman

Wrote my first "novel" when I was six. Studied a bit in college, but then pursued history... But when I started writing professionally, it…

— David B. Coe

I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went…

— Khaled Hosseini

I had lots of time to read [being a lawyer] what I hadn't read in my school and college days. Being a bad student…

— Khushwant Singh

In actual fact, I have been an academic - a college and university teacher and scholar - for much of the last 45 years,…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I became a writer not because my father was one - my father made false teeth for a living. I became a writer because…

— Richard Rodriguez

In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of…

— Trevor Nunn

I'm better at being a lawyer than I am at being a writer.

— David Shapiro

I wasn't very academically inclined, growing up as a child, and the only subject I was good at was English. I had a flair…

— Ishaan Khatter

After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction.

— John Grisham

I studied philosophy, religious studies, and English. My training was writing four full-length novels and hiring an editor to tear them apart. I had…

— Ted Dekker