Doctors Quote by Sylvia Plath

If I weren't a writer, I'd be a psychiatrist.

— Lisa Unger

It didn't occur to me that I could be a writer until college. I saw all these people around me training to be doctors,…

— John Brandon

I wasn't a kid who wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a doctor. I was kind of morbid. I was really…

— Jennifer Egan

I'm happier writing about doctors than I would have been being one.

— Sylvia Plath

Writing was in my mind from the time I was in high school, but more, the idea that I would be a doctor. I…

— Paul Theroux

For a long time, I thought I would like to be a doctor. Such a good profession. So explicitly good. Never a waste of…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.

— Francois Truffaut

I'm still not sure what pulled me into the career I chose, even though, now, I can't imagine having done anything else. Mostly, I…

— Peter Gzowski

I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did.

— Thomas Keneally

My writing flows out of my doctorhood. They are not separate things. They are one. I think the foremost connection between being a doctor…

— Abraham Verghese

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

— Jill Lepore