Shonda Rhimes Quotes

It is my desire to be a great writer. I know that I still have a mountain to climb to achieve that.

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

I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.

I was 17 when I decided to write stories as big as cathedrals, overflowing with the kind of memorable and audacious characters Walker Percy, Ernest Hemingway and Saul Bellow created.

When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be 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 knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.

I always knew I wanted to be a writer.

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.

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.

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.

It's one thing you aspire to: someday, you'll be able to write a book.

I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.

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.

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

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.

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.

Writing was something I always as a kid thought would be fabulous and glamorous to be a writer.

I used to write at home, but it didn't ever occur to me to be a writer.

I pretty much always wanted to be a writer.

When I read 'Greenberg,' I had a really strong sense if I could be any kind of writer I wanted to be, I'd be this kind of writer. And I felt like, even in my experiences, what writing I had done, even on a small scale, when it was good, it shared some quality with it.

I have been aspiring to write some sort of literature for a long time.