Sarah Hall Quotes

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

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

I wanted to be a writer and I ended up being a writer.

Honestly, I never dreamed of being a writer; it felt too unrealistic to even dream about.

When I settled to writing seriously, which would be in my 30s, I did expect to be published eventually, but my aspirations weren't very high. A published book and a few appreciative readers was my idea of heaven.

You don't say, I'm going to be a writer when I grow up - at least I didn't.

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'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.

It was always my dream to write for a living.

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

Hopefully, if I get enough of a fan army together, people will let me write fiction.

What's important about me is that I really have, in ways I never could have foreseen when I was young, a writing career that's reached a lot of different places.

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

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

I've written since I was 10 years old, so I guess I'm self-taught. I've had some luck along the way, I must admit, and I've worked hard.

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

I thought I could write. So it was my intention to start off as a writer. But I wasn't really great at delivering the word at the end of the day.

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

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.

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.

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.

When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family. My father had always identified himself as a writer to my mother when they met. When they met, he was writing this great novel, there was no doubt about it.