Mindy Kaling Quotes

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

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

By the time I was 7 or 8, I wanted to be a comedy writer.

I always thought it'd be fun to write something, but it never was an ambition of mine, per se.

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 went to college to study hospitality. I quickly got out of that and realized that what I liked to do was write.

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

From when I was a kid I wanted to write. It was so important to me that I was writing my own material.

I got into comedy because I wanted to get into writing.

First and foremost, I just want to write comedy.

Writing is as big a part of my career as acting is, financially and time wise. So, yeah, I love it. That's all I wanted to do since I was young was be a writer. So that and acting are the two most important aspects of my career.

I love to write. I write everything across the board - kids' stories and novels and scripts. I actually would like to give that a go; I'd like to try to be a writer.

I was sure I wanted to grow up to be either a veterinarian or a writer. In fact, I worked for a vet during high school, doing everything from cleaning cages to assisting in surgery.

I wrote comedy sketches in college.

I do what I love and what I always dreamed of doing for a living. I write love stories, and I have always had a publisher willing to publish them. I have a sizable and loyal audience. I have made best-seller lists and won awards. What more could anyone ask for?

I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer.

Writing was something I always as a kid thought would be fabulous and glamorous to be a writer.

I'm a writer. I'm moonlighting on television. I never made any pretensions to that. As much as I like being on 'Real Sports,' I have been a writer since I was a little boy, and that's still my first love.

As far as my sketches, I've always loved 'What's Up With That.' It's just a whole lot of fun, and I love 'Black Jeopardy,' too. Any kind of host capacity, I'm usually pretty good at.

It was always my dream to write for a living.

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.

I didn't have a burning desire to be a writer or director - writer probably more so, certainly not a director.

I'm very driven by writing. Coming from 'Saturday Night Live,' because it's such a writing job, and we all write our parts on the show and create characters, I'm so respectful of good writing.

I was not especially a writer back in college.

I had liver disease. I'm completely cured now, but I thought about if I died from liver cancer, what my life would look like. I followed this wish of being a fiction writer.