Edith Pearlman Quotes

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

I started to read at a very early age, and I just thought that books and reading were really the most wonderful thing that life had to offer. I think I wrote my very first piece of fiction at the age of 12, but then I didn't write any more for quite a long time.

Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years.

For any writers at all, read everything you can and then put your butt in the chair and write. That's all there is to it.

I tell people you should write what you love to read because that's where your passion is.

I will try to write books until I drop dead.

I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write.

I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I wrote when I was in kindergarten. I was a reader and a re-reader. That's the main reason I became a writer.

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

I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

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

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

I'm a writer and this is what I love to do.

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.

When I decided I wanted to become an author, I never thought something I wrote would be used as a way to start conversations that are otherwise difficult to begin.

I'm clearly not a writer, but I'm always a fan of them.

I fantasised about becoming an author and wrote my first book at 18 - an introspective novel set in the 1920s.

I don't know if I want to be a writer.

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

I've always wanted to be a writer, and I've kept journals since I was eight years old.

In Sydney, I gave what was billed as a masterclass to bright students of writing at the University of Sydney. But the term 'masterclass' was possibly over-egging the pudding. All I could do was pass on some lessons from my own life, and the most obvious is that if you want to be a writer, you must first have been a reader.

'Some day,' I said, 'I will be an author.'

When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.

I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a component of that identity.

I never intended to become a writer.