Want Quote by Stephen King

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 come from a working-class background and it wasn't in my world to be a writer - I had no direct access to those…

— Roisin Conaty

The part of the process that's exciting to me is feeling like I'm in a place I've never been before, in every way. Without…

— Jennifer Egan

This sounds like a cliche, but I always wanted to write. After college, I did some writing and realized very quickly that it's hard…

— Hooman Majd

Becoming a writer is not a 'career decision' like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don't choose it so much as get chosen,…

— Paul Auster

I may not have become a good writer, but I managed to make a living out of writing.

— Ruskin Bond

You have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

— Doris Lessing

Writers are there to write, not experience things. If you want to experience things, become a pirate or a Bookhunter. If you want to…

— Walter Moers

If you think about becoming a writer, that's just really one of the big dreams I had. It's really important to have those dreams…

— Deb Caletti

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

— Jill Lepore

I just feel really fortunate to build a career as a writer.

— Pippa Middleton

Being a writer is an endless study in human transition and lessons learned or forgotten or misapplied.

— Sloane Crosley