Art Quote by Wallace Shawn

I became an artist because of the possibility it gave me to develop in another way, because I didn't want to follow the same…

— Georg Baselitz

When I was growing up, my parents thought there could be nothing better than being a writer. And at that time, society afforded that…

— Alissa Quart

I wanted to get out of this country and experience different ways of seeing the world. So I went to Europe, but I went…

— Robert Redford

I wasnt always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then I was a stay-at-home…

— Janet Evanovich

I became a writer because during several of the most important years of my life, writing seemed to me to be the most unreal,…

— William Saroyan

I attended Art & Design High School, and at one point, you had to write about what you wanted to be when you grew…

— Amy Heckerling

I came from a lower-middle-class postwar family in a time of austerity and retrenchment, with no one in the family who was in any…

— Graham Swift

When I was young, all I wanted was to write books and be an artist.

— Patti Smith

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 went to college to study drama where I discovered I had no talent and after a period of dropping out majored in cultural…

— Elizabeth Hand

I was fortunate because I had parents who believed that being a writer was a perfectly acceptable thing to want to be. They'd actually…

— Hanya Yanagihara

In high school, I wanted to be an actress. Until I got to college and took some creative writing courses. Then I decided I…

— Meg Cabot