William Styron Quotes

I saw novelists as being admirable people and I thought... I thought... maybe, one day, I could be one of them.

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

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 went to college to study hospitality. I quickly got out of that and realized that what I liked to do was write.

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

I think my parents recognised that I'd always wanted to be a writer, and so they didn't think that this was some idle, faddish wish on my part.

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

From age 7 on, I wanted to be a writer.

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.

I always thought it'd be fun to write something, but it never was an ambition of mine, per se.

I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer.

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 never wanted to be an editor. I never wanted to be a boss. I just wanted to write, and it didn't make any difference whether it was fiction or nonfiction or short stories or whatever. I just - that's what I was destined to do.

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.

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 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.

Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was never far from my mind.

I don't want to be famous per se, but I want to write books for as long as I can. And I plan on writing a lot.

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've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.

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.

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.