Jenna Blum Quotes

I never wanted to be anything but a writer, and I never let go of it.

Once I decided to write, to be published, I knew it would happen.

I've wanted to be a writer since I was, like, 10.

When I was a teenager I decided I was going to be a writer and that nothing was going to stop me. It sounds almost villainous. But I knew that was what I wanted.

My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.

I didn't do any writing seriously until I was in my mid-twenties. But I've never really thought of myself as doing anything else. I've always wanted to write.

When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about largely because I liked the way the word 'goat' looked on the page, but I decided then and there that I wanted to be a writer. That desire never changed.

I never really knew I wanted to 'be' a writer, but I was always writing from a very young age. It became more conscious as an ideal when I was in my twenties.

Once I finished 'Eileen,' I wanted to write more novels. I don't see myself stopping any time soon.

The things that I've done that have totally been remembered, they've always started with the same kind of engine, they've always started with someone saying 'I have to make this film - I'm going to make this film whatever the odds'.

I was one of those kids who never wanted to be anything but a novelist. And I don't know a lot of people who truly live the life that they dreamed of.

Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.

Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.

I wanted to be a novelist from a very early age - 11 or 12 - but I don't think I ever thought I would write historical fiction. I never thought I might write academic history because I simply wasn't good enough!

I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts.

I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager.

I have been aspiring to write some sort of literature for a long time.

I always, always wanted to be a writer.

One has to be ambitious to start writing.

My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine.

I told my parents when I was 12 I'd be a writer.

It took seven years from the day I decided I wanted to write fiction to actually getting a book published.

As long as I can remember, I wanted to be a writer.

I keep telling myself I should try very hard to write a novel of about 210 pages... I don't seem to be capable of it, but I keep hoping it will happen.

I was disinclined to have the status of a writer.