Paul Kane Quotes

As a child, I amused myself by making up stories. I'd lie in bed when I was supposed to be sleeping and imagine other lands where people were doing fascinating things. By fifth grade, I knew I wanted to be a writer, but it took several more decades to really find my way as an author.

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 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 don't think I knew I would be a writer. I wanted to become a writer, and I tried to write.

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

When I was a child, I loved making stories, so I thought maybe I would be a novelist.

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

I always knew I was going to grow up to be a storyteller; that's one of the earliest things I remember about myself. There was never a question of me not writing.

At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what this entailed, exactly - a room, I supposed. A room and books and paper and solitude.

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

I didn't really start to write until I was almost 30, and I started with the short stories.

What I found so captivating about the idea of being a writer was having the ability to write down all these things I made up in my head so other people could see them.

I never thought I would grow up writing a book.

I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.

I wrote 'Ava Wrestles the Alligator' when I was 22 or 23. These people and that world have been evolving in me for a while. It's such a shift not to be in that world.

You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.

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

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

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've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.

When I was young, I wrote everything, and I thought I would be an all around writer, that I would write everything.

My own 'sentimental favorite' is always the novel I haven't yet written - I suppose that's the one I consider my 'masterpiece' as well.

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