Becoming Quote by Susan Sontag

I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I sell?' I…

— Randa Abdel-Fattah

The thing about writing is that if you have the impulse, you will find the time.

— Seamus Heaney

“At least I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had. Not…

— Brenda Ueland

...at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had.

— Brenda Ueland

“Suffice to say, the dream writer had a way of phrasing things. She could depict the curve of a cucumber, the shape of a…

— Meia Geddes

I'm first and foremost a writer. I followed my personal legend, my childhood dream of becoming a writer, but I can't say why I'm…

— Paulo Coelho

To do justice to a lifelong dream of being a writer, I must give it the intense concentration and focus I gave to track.…

— Florence Griffith Joyner

The dream of a writer is to be surprised by his characters. All of a sudden, they are living their own lives; they are…

— Jean-Claude Carriere

Isolated in the oncology ward, I began to think about my dream to become a writer.

— Suleika Jaouad

I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager.

— Paulo Coelho

“My youthful dream of becoming a writer has been realized. I am so pleased I did not let my young self down.”

— Jack Gantos

“When you write about what you dream, you become a writer. When you dream about what you write, you become haunted by a curse.”

— Amal Saleh