About Quote by Tracy Chevalier

I've wanted to be a writer since I was seven, but I didn't grow up in family where people aspired to live as writers.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I've known since I was five that I wanted to be a writer.

— Svetlana Alexievich

I wrote about the life of a housing officer in Britain, in a pretty rough area of London. Maybe it was because I'm a…

— Ben Richards

I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.

— Christopher McQuarrie

I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me.

— Patrick Modiano

I was always meant to be a writer. I've felt that way since I was a child.

— Tess Gerritsen

The truth is, I hadn't grown up really wanting to be a writer. The whole thing was a weird aberration in some ways, and…

— Alex Garland

When I was about 14 or 15 I decided to become a writer and never for a moment since have I wanted to do anything else.

— Tobias Wolff

I never wanted to be a writer initially. It was not my thing, but I was an avid reader.

— Dustin Lance Black

I always wanted to be a writer since I was around 12 years old and I wrote my first book.

— Cassandra Clare

You don't say, I'm going to be a writer when I grow up - at least I didn't.

— Anthony Doerr

In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.

— Kate Morton