David Grann Quotes

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

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

I always knew I wanted to be a writer.

You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.

I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head.

If I did anything 'next', I would do writing.

I might be into writing... I'd like to try it someday. I always come up with some good ideas.

So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist. So I wrote the first book - driven by some very real feelings of desperation - and it worked.

I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994.

I love to write. I write everything across the board - kids' stories and novels and scripts. I actually would like to give that a go; I'd like to try to be a writer.

As a child, I amused myself by making up stories. I'd lie in bed when I was supposed to be sleeping and imagine other lands where people were doing fascinating things. By fifth grade, I knew I wanted to be a writer, but it took several more decades to really find my way as an author.

Because I'm such a creative person, and I've always got my nose in a book, I suppose it was only a matter of time before non-fiction turned into fiction again. But I never consciously set out to become a writer and I never thought I'd be doing the things I'm doing today.

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.

If you're a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you.

I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions, and I don't think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of poet.

I really wanted to be a writer.

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

I always wanted to be a writer. In the beginning, I thought I had to rewrite 'Gone with the Wind,' but eventually, I found my way and realized that wasn't me.

I cannot recall any moment of clarity about becoming a writer. I always liked to read. That's what did it.

I started writing in 1948 - basically.

I didn't know I was gonna be a writer when I started out.

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

I always, always wanted to be a writer.

When I ventured into writing at the age of 17, I wanted to be a good and successful writer. I just wanted to write good stuff - poems, prose, stories, essays, everything.