Zosia Mamet Quotes

I always thought of myself as a kind of literary bureaucrat. And that was never going to be enough for me.

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

I was always a keen reader. I jotted down one or two things, but it never occurred to me to think of a job in writing. I thought that writers were like demi-gods. I don't know what I thought.

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 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.

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

My son had toyed with the idea of writing and trying to write a little bit, so that kind of gave me the bug to write also.

Every 'Observer' writer wants to be a novelist.

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

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 think my parents recognised that I'd always wanted to be a writer, and so they didn't think that this was some idle, faddish wish on my part.

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

When I was young, I wrote everything, and I thought I would be an all around writer, that I would write everything.

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 want a career writing these novels that I can be proud of. And then I want one as a screenwriter.

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 hope to build a reputation as a science-fiction writer. That's the pitch. We'll see.

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

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.

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.

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

I remember all the way back in high school thinking about writing books. And, in fact, I've written a lot of stories. I've got dozens of stories I've written that no one's ever seen.

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