Author Quote by Vikrant Parsai

I always knew, deep down, that I'd love to be an author, but I don't think I really thought about trying to do it…

— Tom Fletcher

I can't say that I ever actually decided to become a writer. It kind of snuck up on me.

— William Landay

I never wanted to be an author or thought I could be.

— James Van Praagh

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

— Dustin Lance Black

I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.

— Walter Jon Williams

I didn't intend to be a novelist. I didn't intend to be anything. I thought I'd be a journalist.

— Alex Garland

I want to be an author.

— Harry Lloyd

I only became a novelist because I thought I had missed my chance to become a historian.

— Hilary Mantel

In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying…

— Leslie Banks

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

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

— Thomas Keneally

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