Emeli Sande Quotes

I've always wanted to be a writer ever since I was in kindergarten, so that was ultimately what I wanted to do with my life.

In our age, if a boy or girl is untalented, the odds are in favor of their thinking they want to write.

And if there is anybody out there who is crazy enough to want to become a writer, I'd say go ahead, spit in the eye of the sun, hit those keys, it's the best madness going, the centuries need help, the species cry for light and gamble and laughter. Give it to them. There are enough words for all of us.

I wrote as a teenager, and once I started acting, you know, you're learning lines, you're doing other people's words, it takes up a lot of time. Especially if you're dedicated to what you're doing, you're trying to do a decent job at it. But I would have said to myself, "Write more, please."

Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.

And sometimes I sit down to write, because that is what I like to do more and more in the future.

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.

When I was about twenty-one, I published a few poems. Maybe I wrote a couple of stories before, but I really began to write stories in my mid-thirties. My kids were still little, and they were in school and day care, and I had begun to think a lot about wanting to tell some stories and not being able to do it in poetry.

I've been writing since I was six years old. It's hard to imagine stopping. I would hate to think that I've already written my best book.

I want to write. I have always wanted to write. I do not care it I am not good at it. I just want to try.

I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature.

For a person whose sole burning ambition is to write - like myself - college is useless beyond the Sophomore year.

I'm going to continue writing. I'll always be a storyteller. But I'm also taking time to enjoy my life.

I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life. I can't be satisfied with the colossal job of merely living. Oh, no, I must order life in sonnets and sestinas and provide a verbal reflector for my 60-watt lighted head.

I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this. But I have will to defend people - it can be all sorts of people.

There is no trick to it. If you like to write and want to write, you write, no matter where you are or what else you are doing or whether anyone pays any heed.

Many have an irresistible itch for writing.

If you want to be a writer, all you need is a piece of paper and a pencil, and I had a manual typewriter. It doesn't cost money to write. It costs money to make art. So I would just write. I would hand out stories in the classes in high school. And the teacher would say, "Whatever you do, don't become a writer."

I'm really open to just about anything but I think the real dream is to be able to write my own thing.

Real writers write because they love to write. They don't write for public acclaim.

I mean it's the writing, not the being read, that excites me.

If what you want to do is write, then it's madness not to do it.

It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.

I wrote for years before I was ever published, and I don't think I could ever stop. That said, I was also a veterinarian before I sold my first book, and I still volunteer my time to help with animal welfare causes. So that is a career I would be happy to return to - while still secretly writing strange stories back in my doctor's office.

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.