Jared Kushner Quotes

I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.

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 pretty much always wanted to be a writer.

I have always aspired to be a writer, be it as an author or a screenwriter, whatever the medium.

I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.

I want a career writing these novels that I can be proud of. And then I want one as a screenwriter.

I hope to build a reputation as a science-fiction writer. That's the pitch. We'll see.

I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.

If you think about becoming a writer, that's just really one of the big dreams I had. It's really important to have those dreams and pursue your passions.

My dream was, and always had been, to write a book. To be a writer.

Once I started getting paid to be a writer and not having lots of other gross responsibilities, like making the puzzle or whatever, then my ambition changed, and I thought, 'Now I want to be a good writer.' And that became my ambition.

I wanted to be a writer and I ended up being a writer.

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.

I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face.

I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday.

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

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.

My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's actually what I aspired to be.

My intent was to gain experience for fiction I eventually hoped to write. But there's no question I was drawn in by the hope that journalism would be a creative, thrilling environment.

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.

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

You don't say, I'm going to be a writer when I grow up - at least I didn't.

As a young, ambitious novelist, writing for kids never crossed my mind.