Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes

Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.

I love being a writer. I don't really want to do anything else!

I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of writing, but writing is what I was meant to do.

It's hard to imagine my life not writing. I love it.

I'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more.

I became a writer out of the desire to express myself.

I was always attracted and repelled by the idea of being a writer.

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

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.

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

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.

I am a writer - that is what I am before being a performer or musician. I love waking up in the morning and then going to sleep that night with something that did not exist.

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

I feel lucky that my career so far has included books for adults and books for kids. They're equally important to me, and I hope I get to continue writing both.

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

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

I just knew I would be a writer. It just seemed the only sensible thing to do.

I came from a family of incredible storytellers, but I didn't start writing children's books until I was 41 years old.

I've been writing since I was very young, even before I was a teenager. As far as I'm concerned, I am a writer - whether my writing's spoken or written in a blog, paper, book or printed on the side of a submarine.

My true nature, I believe, is writing.

The great thing about being a writer is that you have a long, perhaps frighteningly long time in which to do your work.

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.