Roger Zelazny Quotes

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

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.

As long as I can remember, I wanted to be a writer.

I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child.

I had a vision of myself as a novelist because that was where I could be serious. I couldn't with music.

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

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

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

I don't think I knew I would be a writer. I wanted to become a writer, and I tried to write.

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'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.

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

From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world.

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.

I saw novelists as being admirable people and I thought... I thought... maybe, one day, I could be one of them.

I've wanted to be a writer since I was four years old!

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

When I was 30 or so - by that time I had become an assistant D.A. - I decided I would try to write a novel. To be clear: I did not decide to become a novelist. Honestly, it never crossed my mind that I could actually earn a living as a professional novelist.

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 never wanted to be anything but a writer, and I never let go of it.

I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant.

I wanted to be a novelist for so long.

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

I've wanted to be a writer since I was, like, 10.