Discouraged Quote by Sheila Heti

By college, I had a really grand, preposterous vision of myself as becoming a writer, but I don't think I had the discipline or…

— Nguyen Viet Thang

I've been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.

— Lana Del Rey

It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was…

— Paulo Coelho

I got so discouraged, I almost stopped writing. It was my 12-year-old son who changed my mind when he said to me, "Mother, you've…

— Madeleine L'Engle

I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don't think I ever gave it up, though there were…

— Alice Munro

I was almost teaching myself through writing without even realizing it. It's like therapy. You can hear my progression as a person and how…

— Bea Miller

When I started writing, I thought nobody would understand the things that I liked. Then I began getting a lot of letters from people…

— Novala Takemoto

I was always meant to be a writer. I've felt that way since I was a child.

— Tess Gerritsen

It actually took me 20 years to want to write about my youth. I was definitely always a little intimidated about writing about that…

— Greg Mottola

The two years I spent solely writing for other people kind of took me away from myself.

— LP

Now I write often. I decided that I need to write for myself - I can't really direct other people's material.

— Brady Corbet

Nobody should be anything, but because I once had a different profession and I'm interested in writing, I took it upon me.

— Rem Koolhaas