Dream Quote by Steve Rushin

I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.

— Nora Roberts

What brought me to the table was Raymond Chandler and, to a lesser degree, Ross Macdonald and Dashiell Hammett. I was basically inspired to…

— Michael Connelly

After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic nor historical,…

— Iris Chang

While writing my first 90 books, I was magazine editor, publisher, book publisher, executive, etc., so I was established in publishing. three of my…

— Jerry B. Jenkins

I pretty much always wanted to be a writer.

— Jane Goldman

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

— E. L. Doctorow

My first writing jobs were writing Tom Arnold specials for HBO, so I love working there.

— Judd Apatow

I always wanted to be a writer.

— Jung Chang

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

— Steve Toltz

I've always liked to write, but I never thought I could make a career out of it.

— Dee Rees

Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was never far…

— Alex Flinn

I wrote for my high school and college newspapers. It was my only creative outlet in those days.

— Soupy Sales