J. Michael Straczynski Quotes

I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did.

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

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

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

I always knew I wanted to be a writer.

Unfortunately for my family, they have a writer in the family.

I've been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.

As a youngster, I think I said I wanted to be a journalist, but that's a disguise for being a writer.

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

I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid.

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

I came from a family of incredible storytellers, but I didn't start writing children's books until I was 41 years old.

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 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.

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.

Although I always loved reading and putting words on paper, I never thought about becoming a writer until I was twelve.

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.

I must say, it was a lot easier writing novels than I thought it would be. I think it's because I'm a novelist at heart, and it took me a while to figure that out.

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

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.

As I read more and more - and it was not all verse, by any means - my love for the real life of words increased until I knew that I must live with them and in them, always. I knew, in fact, that I must be a writer of words, and nothing else.

I became a writer out of the desire to express myself.

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

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

Every 'Observer' writer wants to be a novelist.