Books Quote by Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I've been writing since I was six. It is a compulsion, so I can't really say where the desire came from; I've always had…

— J. K. Rowling

I found that married life gave me the necessary freedom to follow an ambition which had been with me since childhood; and so I…

— Jean Plaidy

“I think I was born to write. My mother would put a typewriter on the dining room table and say "there you go". My…

— Ida Pollock

Sometimes, in my published complaints about not being a writer, I have recalled the prospect - the yearning to be a writer - as…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I longed to be a writer, always wanted to be a writer.

— Fannie Flagg

Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have…

— Julianna Baggott

I always had a passion to write as a young girl.

— Tyra Banks

I became a writer out of the desire to express myself.

— Pankaj Kapur

Finally, I began to write about becoming an older woman and the trepidation it stirred. The small, telling "betrayals" of my body. The stalled,…

— Sue Monk Kidd

I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that…

— Naguib Mahfouz

When I was 22 years old, I thought girls would like me if I wrote a novel. I spent so much time writing that…

— James Altucher

Of course, among the confused motives that spurred me toward being a writer was also the desire to look, to be above the trees…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim