Complaints Quote by Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I always just wanted to be a writer, not necessarily a particular kind of writer.

— Jill Lepore

I never had a moment of wanting to be a writer. I wanted to be an actress, but writing was just a thing I…

— Sarah Pinborough

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

— Tess Gerritsen

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

— Dustin Lance Black

I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing.

— Steve Toltz

There is and always has been for me a peculiar need to write. This is very different from wanting to be a writer. To…

— Patricia Wentworth

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

I always, always wanted to be a writer.

— Howard Jacobson

I thought of myself as a writer for years before I got around to writing anything.

— E. L. Doctorow

When people say, Did you always want to be a writer?, I have to say no! I always WAS a writer.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I became a writer because during several of the most important years of my life, writing seemed to me to be the most unreal,…

— William Saroyan

I always knew I wanted to be a writer.

— Karen Kingsbury