Jerry Spinelli Quotes

Where I came from, no one was a writer.

I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing.

I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday.

I always wanted to be a writer, from being a little kid onwards. My dad and my mum both had phases when that was what they did.

I never intended to become a writer.

If you think about becoming a writer, that's just really one of the big dreams I had. It's really important to have those dreams and pursue your passions.

I hadn't ever felt any particular calling to be a novelist, and I clearly remember telling a friend of mine about six months before I started work on 'Elsewhere' that I would never write a novel.

I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking, 'I really want to write a novel.'

Everyone said, 'Well, you're very old for a first novel,' and I said, 'How do you write when you haven't lived? How do you write when you have no experience? How do you write straight out of university?'

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

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.

With this first novel, I am just above the foothills, but I see the path to the top, and it is my desire to write compelling stories about everything that I find of interest.

I've been writing, in one way or another, for as long as I can remember.

Writers always say, 'I always knew I wanted to be a writer; when I was a three-month-old foetus a pen formed in my hand and I began to scratch my first story on the inside of my mother's womb.' I started later, in my early twenties.

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

I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English teacher but I wasn't that way growing up.

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 discovered that writing was very nice indeed when I was very young, and I never changed. I don't think my style has changed very much at all - though I hope what I say is a bit more interesting. It's about getting to know a character and loving them, I think.

I've always been a writer.

I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.

I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.

Aside from the Rizzoli & Isles books, there are many other stories I want to write. The question is whether I'll live long enough to write them all!

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

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.