Claudia Gray Quotes

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.

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

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

Although I always said that I wanted to be a writer from childhood, I hadn't actually done much about it until I came to London.

I had a vision of myself as a novelist because that was where I could be serious. I couldn't with music.

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

I find myself really feeling like it's possible that maybe the greater contribution I'm going to be able to make through this next phase of my life might be as a writer writing wonderful parts for women, or even writing wonderful parts for myself, you know?

I've wanted to write ever since I've gotten into comics. I wrote little things for myself when I was doing mini-comics and things, before becoming a professional. But I just figure at some point or another, I've got to make the leap. I just have to do it.

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.

Writing, for all that it's harder than nursing ever was, is also more joyous and more fun and a lot less dangerous. And the major themes of my life have become the major themes of my writing, too - so it has all worked out pretty well.

I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody.

When I was 30 or so - by that time I had become an assistant D.A. - I decided I would try to write a novel. To be clear: I did not decide to become a novelist. Honestly, it never crossed my mind that I could actually earn a living as a professional novelist.

I always wanted to be a writer, from being a little kid onwards. My dad and my mum both had phases when that was what they did.

When I was about 14 or 15 I decided to become a writer and never for a moment since have I wanted to do anything else.

I've wanted to be a writer since I was seven, but I didn't grow up in family where people aspired to live as writers.

It was always my dream to write for a living.

I always wanted to write, ever since I was a kid. I started writing at the age of 11. All I wanted to do was finish my education and have my nights free for writing.

I didn't know I was gonna be a writer when I started out.

I had it in my head when I was in college that I wanted to be a writer, but it took me a long time to commit to being a writer. Up until then, I had worked one dead-end job after another while writing on the side.

I was always interested in writing from an early age, but it seemed so far away and inconceivable, like wanting to be an astronaut or a pop star.

I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English teacher but I wasn't that way growing up.

I wanted to be a writer since I was in high school, but I never thought it was possible.

Every 'Observer' writer wants to be a novelist.

My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.

From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world.