Bell Hooks Quotes

When I wrote my stories in elementary school, I signed them all 'Karen E. Bender' with the squiggly 'E.' I wanted, from an early age, to be a writer, and that name - that E - was a way of pretending I knew how to do it.

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

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 wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.

I was always obsessed with being a writer of some sort.

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

Every 'Observer' writer wants to be a novelist.

I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.

I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.

Well, I always wanted to write from the time I was very little, and my mother encouraged me. She wrote a journal from the time she was 15 up until about the age of 76.

Once I decided to write, to be published, I knew it would happen.

I think my parents recognised that I'd always wanted to be a writer, and so they didn't think that this was some idle, faddish wish on my part.

When I was only eleven years old, I decided to become a writer. I told this ambition in a letter to Laura Ingalls Wilder; the die was cast. How could I go back on my word?

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

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

I hope to build a reputation as a science-fiction writer. That's the pitch. We'll see.

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.

I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a 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.

My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine.

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

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

Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.

To be a writer was always my greatest aim. I remember writing a play about Guy Fawkes when I was 10. I suppose it's significant, at least to me, that my first work should be about a historical figure.