After Quote by Vikram Seth

I'm not a boy-writer, I've never been. I wanted to be a boy-writer when I was young, and I think that held me back.…

— Paul Auster

I never started writing because I wanted to write myself stuff. It was really more that I had these stories to tell, and I…

— Josh Lawson

“I always wanted to be a writer, and I always wrote something – stories, poetry, articles, newsletters, letters. Most writers can't help themselves! It's…

— Marina Oliver

I've just always written, and always considered myself a writer. I wrote my first story when I was five. There was nothing else I…

— Jami Attenberg

I didn't really start to write until I was almost 30, and I started with the short stories.

— Kate DiCamillo

I consider myself a writer. I don't favour any type of writing. I sometimes wish short stories came more easily to me.

— James Lasdun

I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that…

— Naguib Mahfouz

I didn't intend to become a short-story writer. I became one because I finished a couple of short stories and realized that's what I…

— Grace Paley

I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.

— Zoey Deutch

I have seldom written a story, long or short, that I did not have to write and rewrite. There are single stories of mine…

— Sherwood Anderson

I don't know about writing. It's quite lonely. You have to have a lot of patience with yourself.

— Ruth Wilson

I was writing all my childhood. And I wrote two novels when I was 17, which were terrible. And I'm not sorry I threw…

— Doris Lessing