Kimberly Willis Holt Quotes

I'm a compulsive storyteller, an avid reader, and have always nurtured the secret goal of spending my life as a writer.

I've been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.

I came from a family of incredible storytellers, but I didn't start writing children's books until I was 41 years old.

I cannot recall any moment of clarity about becoming a writer. I always liked to read. That's what did it.

I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head.

I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I would love that most.

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

The first time I can remember thinking that I would like to be a writer came in sixth grade, when our teacher Mrs. Crandall gave us an extended period of time to write a long story. I loved doing it. I started working seriously at becoming a writer when I was seventeen.

When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer.

I've always wanted to be a writer. Ever since I learned to read, I've wanted to share stories with others the way my favorite writers shared their stories with me.

And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.

I always knew I wanted to be a writer.

I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing.

To be honest, the only thing I ever really wanted to be was a writer - since I read 'Charlotte's Web' as a child.

I was always a keen reader. I jotted down one or two things, but it never occurred to me to think of a job in writing. I thought that writers were like demi-gods. I don't know what I thought.

I've wanted to be a writer since I was four years old!

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.

Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I enjoyed. When you're so captivated by something, you think, could I do that? Hmm, let me try.

I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write.

Because I'm such a creative person, and I've always got my nose in a book, I suppose it was only a matter of time before non-fiction turned into fiction again. But I never consciously set out to become a writer and I never thought I'd be doing the things I'm doing today.

I was not going to use writing for advertising or journalism. I would tend bar, load trucks, chauffeur - do whatever it took. But from the moment I took my first writing workshop, I was a writer.

Screenwriting and the movie stuff could all disappear tomorrow, but to sit down with my laptop and still tell stories is my day job. I didn't believe I'd actually get to do it for a living.

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.

I have always loved to read, and now that I have penned 10 novels and a few magazine articles, I have fallen seriously in love with writing stories and seeing them go out into the world. It's magical, you know?