Confused Quote by Shirley Geok-lin Lim

A reason I became a writer was to escape the hopelessness and despair of the real world and enter the world of hope I…

— Ray Bradbury

In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.

— Kate Morton

If I had a talent, it was for looking askew at everything, possibly more than my contemporaries. But I had to really push myself…

— David Bowie

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 always wanted to be a writer. In the beginning, I thought I had to rewrite 'Gone with the Wind,' but eventually, I found…

— Karin Slaughter

As a writer, you owe it to yourself not to get stuck in a rut of looking at the world in a certain way.

— Hilary Mantel

My decision to view the world through novels, as it were, which is a typically European way of looking at things, became a heavy…

— Orhan Pamuk

Eventually, I realised that I wanted to try to create something myself, and that's what writing novels is. Not because I wanted to put…

— Chris Pavone

I don't know if I had ever found my place in the world until I fully committed to being a writer.

— Jami Attenberg

In Among the White Moon Faces, I wrote about my desire to be a writer as rooted in my obsessive hours of reading English…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

What I found so captivating about the idea of being a writer was having the ability to write down all these things I made…

— Kameron Hurley

Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed…

— Alan Dean Foster