Frank Deford Quotes

For a person whose sole burning ambition is to write - like myself - college is useless beyond the Sophomore year.

I always wanted to write, ever since I was a kid. I started writing at the age of 11. All I wanted to do was finish my education and have my nights free for writing.

I had a series of terrible jobs, whatever would allow me to write for four hours during the day. During that time I wrote three novels - all of which were extraordinarily poor. I decided after that to go and get my MFA.

I went to college to study hospitality. I quickly got out of that and realized that what I liked to do was write.

I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all it is cracked up to be. But writing is.

People say, 'What advice do you have for people who want to be writers?' I say, they don't really need advice, they know they want to be writers, and they're gonna do it. Those people who know that they really want to do this and are cut out for it, they know it.

I've been a writer longer than I've been an actor. I wrote short stories like crazy when I was in high school and college. I worked in advertising before I moved to L.A. to pursue acting.

I first tried a novel when I was 14. First finished one when I was 16. First started working on stuff that had a chance of being salable in my early 20s, then didn't write much fiction at all because I was in grad school.

I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did.

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 don't want to be famous per se, but I want to write books for as long as I can. And I plan on writing a lot.

I saw novelists as being admirable people and I thought... I thought... maybe, one day, I could be one of them.

I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.

I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.

I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.

I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid.

Sometime around 2006, I decided I had missed my true calling as a young adult author.

When I was 30 or so - by that time I had become an assistant D.A. - I decided I would try to write a novel. To be clear: I did not decide to become a novelist. Honestly, it never crossed my mind that I could actually earn a living as a professional novelist.

I always wanted to be a writer, from being a little kid onwards. My dad and my mum both had phases when that was what they did.

The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it's kind of the same as being president of the United States - it's not gonna happen.

I think there's only one reason to write in any genre or to any particular age group: You are called to it. You think it'd be fun.

I'm first and foremost a writer. I followed my personal legend, my childhood dream of becoming a writer, but I can't say why I'm one.

I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager.

When I was about 14 or 15 I decided to become a writer and never for a moment since have I wanted to do anything else.

I've wanted to be a writer since I was seven, but I didn't grow up in family where people aspired to live as writers.