Chang-Rae Lee Quotes

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

I had a vision of myself as a novelist because that was where I could be serious. I couldn't with music.

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.

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've always wanted to be a writer ever since I was in kindergarten, so that was ultimately what I wanted to do with my life.

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

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.

When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about largely because I liked the way the word 'goat' looked on the page, but I decided then and there that I wanted to be a writer. That desire never changed.

I never really knew I wanted to 'be' a writer, but I was always writing from a very young age. It became more conscious as an ideal when I was in my twenties.

I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face.

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.

From age 7 on, I wanted to be a writer.

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.

I never wanted to be anything but a writer, and I never let go of it.

I was one of those kids who never wanted to be anything but a novelist. And I don't know a lot of people who truly live the life that they dreamed of.

I don't think I knew I would be a writer. I wanted to become a writer, and I tried to write.

I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer.

Naturally, it was easier for me to envision becoming a novelist than it is for most people. I had two great in-house teachers; I had parents who considered a career in the arts a real possibility rather than a dreamy arrow shot into the sky.

It was always my dream to write for a living.

I was 35, had always wanted to write novels, and thought that I had better do it while I was young enough.

The way a small child might dream of visiting Disneyland, I dreamed of writing books. Never did I think my poems would become that.

I was always interested in writing from an early age, but it seemed so far away and inconceivable, like wanting to be an astronaut or a pop star.

I wanted to be a writer since I was in high school, but I never thought it was possible.

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