Ruth Rendell Quotes

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.

Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.

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

Once I finished 'Eileen,' I wanted to write more novels. I don't see myself stopping any time soon.

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.

The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.

I always knew I wanted to be a writer.

I wanted to write.

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.

I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist.

I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write.

I was not going to use writing for advertising or journalism. I would tend bar, load trucks, chauffeur - do whatever it took. But from the moment I took my first writing workshop, I was a writer.

I was a writer before 'Eat, Pray, Love,' and I'll be a writer after it's over. It's what I want to do for the rest of my life.

And sometimes I sit down to write, because that is what I like to do more and more in the future.

I've always been a writer. I hope to continue to write books until I can't anymore.

Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.

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 had many different careers early on. I knew I wanted to be a writer. But, like so many people, I didn't know how to be one - other than just do it. I didn't know what form it would take.

I don't think there was a time I ever thought of myself as anything but a writer. I thought I was going to be the next Toni Morrison.

When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer.

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.

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

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.

And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.