Admitted Quote by Steven Brust

I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

— Octavia E. Butler

I realized that I might not ever make it as a writer, that it might be because I wasn't good enough, or that it…

— Jay McInerney

I was not especially a writer back in college.

— Robert Sapolsky

A lot of the traditional sitcom stuff I did - I think I could have gone that route when I was younger as a…

— Brian Posehn

I think it was the fact that I liked it so much that made the writing just come out of me automatically.

— James Herriot

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

— E. L. Doctorow

I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.

— Rainbow Rowell

It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire…

— Rita Dove

It took me a long time to accept that I was a writer.

— Katie Kitamura

It's true that all my novels have been versions of myself to some degree.

— Justin Cartwright

When I wrote 'Savage Season,' it was three years later before I wrote the second Hap and Leonard novel. Whenever I wrote one, I…

— Joe R. Lansdale

It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.'

— Don DeLillo