Evangeline Lilly Quotes

I've always wanted to be a writer, and I've kept journals since I was eight years old.

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

I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe.

The only way to be a novelist, to think that you can create something others will give themselves up to for a dozen hours or more, is to have psychotic self-belief.

I've been writing stories since I was 12. 'Writer's Digest' was one of my writing teachers, actually.

Writing is as big a part of my career as acting is, financially and time wise. So, yeah, I love it. That's all I wanted to do since I was young was be a writer. So that and acting are the two most important aspects of my career.

I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.

I'm a writer and this is what I love to do.

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

When I decided I wanted to become an author, I never thought something I wrote would be used as a way to start conversations that are otherwise difficult to begin.

Sometime early in life, I developed the notion - one which I have never relinquished - that writing a novel is the very finest thing a person can do.

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

There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, 'Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic worth.'

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

I've always been a writer.

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.

I think one of the keys to better writing is releasing all of your ideas and to not be afraid. Dream big. This could be the greatest novel in the world you know.

Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.

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

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.

I'd love to maybe try writing. I don't know if I'd publish anything, but as a hobby, it's really nice. I bought a typewriter, and I really like to write on the typewriter sometimes. It's a fun little hobby.

I would say the reason that I've never written a novel is because I've never written a novel.

One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.

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