Baby Quote by Suzy Becker

I never really wanted to write a book in the first place. Never intended to do such. I feel like I wasted a lot…

— Scarface

I never, ever decided that I had to write a novel because, to me, there's no such decision that ought to be made. It's…

— Arundhati Roy

Getting a book published made me feel a little bit sad... I felt driven by the need to write a book, rather than the…

— Nicole Krauss

I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved…

— Gail Carson Levine

I've always wanted to write a book. And it turned out that it was more about finding a story that I felt I was…

— Hank Green

Writing a novel is like childbirth: once you realize how awful it really is, you never want to do it again.

— Sarah Dessen

I didn't want to write a book. They made me do it.

— Grace Slick

I was inspired by my life. I was inspired by the lives of many women doctors around me. So [Memoirs of a Woman Doctor…

— Nawal El Saadawi

I never thought I would write an autobiography, probably because my first novel, Go Now, is really all drawn from my life, even though…

— Richard Hell

I didn't want to be written about as a human-interest story. I didn't want to be a passing thing. You know, now we move…

— Aimee Mullins

The ideas for my books come about in two ways. There can be an intellectual idea that seems to be the reason for writing…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I wanted to achieve something because I thought that we should not just be born and live, so I started writing books.

— Chef Damu