Kristin Gore Quotes

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 was always interested in writing from an early age, but it seemed so far away and inconceivable, like wanting to be an astronaut or a pop star.

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.

If you think about becoming a writer, that's just really one of the big dreams I had. It's really important to have those dreams and pursue your passions.

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.

I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.

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

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.

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

I always had a passion to write as a young girl.

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

I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face.

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

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.

Writing was not a childhood dream of mine. I do not recall longing to write as a student. I wasn't sure how to start.

Ever since I was in my teens I had plans at one point in my life to write a novel.

My dad is a writer, and to see him always in front of a typewriter gave me the inspiration to write. He was my idol, my hero. I wanted to be just like him.

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 a child, I loved making stories, so I thought maybe I would be a novelist.

The way a small child might dream of visiting Disneyland, I dreamed of writing books. Never did I think my poems would become that.

I've known since I was five that I wanted to be a writer.

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.