Cameron Dokey Quotes

Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else.

And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.

I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else.

I love being a writer so much that I almost can't believe that I am one.

What I really care about is writing... Some people feel about touring the way I feel about writing, which is, 'Whoa, I can't believe I get to do this as a job.'

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 always knew I wanted to be a writer.

I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I would love that most.

But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to do; with what has to be done by a writer in order to stay alive as a writer.

Unfortunately for my family, they have a writer in the family.

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'm a compulsive storyteller, an avid reader, and have always nurtured the secret goal of spending my life as a writer.

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

How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.'

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

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 never intended to become a writer.

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.

Screenwriting and the movie stuff could all disappear tomorrow, but to sit down with my laptop and still tell stories is my day job. I didn't believe I'd actually get to do it for a living.

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.

The first time I can remember thinking that I would like to be a writer came in sixth grade, when our teacher Mrs. Crandall gave us an extended period of time to write a long story. I loved doing it. I started working seriously at becoming a writer when I was seventeen.

I don't remember a time when I didn't define myself as a writer.

I've always been a writer. I hope to continue to write books until I can't anymore.

Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.