Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

I've always been writing.

I was one of those kids who always wrote.

I wanted to write.

Once I started writing, I realized just how much I really enjoyed it. I was kinda good at it, so I kept at it.

I have written my whole life. I remember writing as a small child.

I started blogging a decade ago because I like blogging. Writing's a kind of lonely thing to do, and I liked the idea of demystifying the process because I loved it as a kid and teenager and as somebody who wanted desperately to write.

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

I've been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.

For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write.

I guess you could say I've been writing all my life.

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

I love to write. It's my first love.

I started writing one afternoon when I was twenty, and ever since then I have written every day. At first I had to force myself. Then it became part of my identity, and I did it without thinking.

I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself.

And I love writing; I've been writing ever since I was seven.

Writing is writing. It's an abiding, wonderful talent, craft, gift that stays with you your whole life. And you can go in different forms, and you can try them. Look at me: I'm writing novels because I found something I love because I tried it.

The desire to write grows with writing.

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

I was always a writer, by which I mean I was always scribbling away, doing something with pen and paper.

A lot of people ask me, 'Are you born a writer?' And I don't think it's necessarily true. I just think what you either have or you don't is this ability to see something that's complex and worth talking about.

I always wrote from a very young age, literally from the time I learned how to read and write.

My teacher Tom Spanbauer, the man who got me started writing in his workshop, used to say: 'Writers write because they weren't invited to a party.' That always struck so true, and people always nod their heads when they hear that. Especially writers.

I love to write. I have always loved writing. That was my first love.

I think I write and publish as often as I do because I can't bear being without a book to work on... I don't feel I have this to say or that to say or this story to tell, but I know I want to be occupied with the writing process while I'm living.

I always wrote stories, but I do remember a particular moment in middle school where I became passionate about essay writing.