Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes

The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.

I don't think there was a time I ever thought of myself as anything but a writer. I thought I was going to be the next Toni Morrison.

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.

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.

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

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

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.

I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child.

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.

Every 'Observer' writer wants to be a novelist.

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

Once I decided to write, to be published, I knew it would happen.

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.

Once I finished 'Eileen,' I wanted to write more novels. I don't see myself stopping any time soon.

It took seven years from the day I decided I wanted to write fiction to actually getting a book published.

Dreamers become writers, and for me, being a published writer is a dream come true.

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.

I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort.

I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant.

At the age of twenty, having published nothing and having had little guidance in my reading, I decided that I wanted to write.

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.

I never set out to be a published writer.