Dustin Lance Black Quotes

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.

It's hard to say when my interest in writing began, or how. My mother read to my sister and me every night, and we always loved playing make-believe games. I had a well-primed imagination. I didn't start thinking about writing as a serious pursuit, a career I could have, until after college.

I've always wanted to be a writer. Ever since I learned to read, I've wanted to share stories with others the way my favorite writers shared their stories with me.

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'm still learning my craft, and I've been writing since I was nine.

I cannot recall any moment of clarity about becoming a writer. I always liked to read. That's what did it.

I've always been entranced by writing.

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

I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.

Writing will remain a passion project.

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

I've always been a writer.

I think I'm more sympathetic to writers, to the work and the struggle and the craft of it, than when I was in graduate school at NYU and was very judgmental.

I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.

I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.

I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.

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.

I think I became a writer because of my love of stories and an inability to stop asking, 'What if?'

I enjoy writing.

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

I was always writing the books that I wanted to write, books that demanded to be written at the time. But, like most writers, you start off feeling your way.

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

I think writing is such a great talent, and if I was better, I would love to be a writer.

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.