Christina Tosi Quotes

Despite my mother saying I have been destined to be an actress my whole life, I remember being the kid who grew up not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.

I didn't have any idea what I wanted to be when I grew up.

I had no idea what I wanted to be when I was 17. I just knew I wanted to be something larger than myself.

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

When I was younger, I would write a ton, mostly because my mom told me I had incredible creativity and a gift of using words, only these were words that didn't get me in trouble.

What I'd like to be above all is a writer.

I was never really sure what I wanted to do - I'm in awe of these people who knew at age 10 or 12 they wanted to be a brain surgeon, and they did it, and they still are.

You know, I'm still deciding what I'm going to be when I grow up.

As far as writing, it's grown because I've really grown comfortable with who I am.

I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, typing little funny magazines and drawing comic strips.

I'm going to tell stories to the world. I think there's time for me to grow. We'll see.

I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed of escape.

I was writing from the age of 10, and I was never really into going to discos and dances and stuff. I never told anyone at school that I did that because I feared it would alienate me even more.

I knew I wanted to be creative but didn't know how.

Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people.

I wanted to leave home, and I didn't know where I was going or what I was going to do or what would happen. That's youth, though. Being fixated on things. I was fixated on being a writer.

Growing up, I could never decide what I wanted to be because I wanted to be so many things.

Right now, I'm known for making movies. And I wonder if that's it. I don't know. It doesn't feel like it to me.

When I was really young, my ambition wasn't to do science. I didn't really know that I could. It was to write a great novel.

Write. Write every day. Write honestly. Write something that doesn’t exist, and you wish did. Read. Learn. Study. Watch people. Listen to what they say, listen to how they say it and listen to what they do not say. Surprise yourself. Scare yourself.

I got the idea that to write books would be the best way to spend a life. I never thought of anything else that seemed like half as much fun, although in my next life I would like to be an architect, too, so I can have an easier time restoring houses.

My mother sent me to speech classes, but the other kids still teased me. I was shy. I stooped. Instead of talking, I kept journals. That's where my love of words comes from. I majored in journalism.

I get so much inspiration from my travels, but I also started an exercise where I write down so many words every week. Then I begin crossing them off. We create a grid of words and also images, but words for me are more ample because you can interpret them your own way.

I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it.

If I were to have a dream job, it would probably be a poet. Then again, I don't think I'm a very good poet!