Caleb Carr Quotes

And I didn't grow up wanting to be a director. I grew up wanting to be a writer, so for me, that was always the goal - to be a novelist, not a screenwriter. And I think, again, if I didn't have the novels, maybe I'd be much more frustrated by not having directed yet.

I want a career writing these novels that I can be proud of. And then I want one as a screenwriter.

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.

When I was a child, I loved making stories, so I thought maybe I would be a novelist.

I definitely thought I was going to write books. I wrote a couple of children's books when I was like 11 when I was a child myself!

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.

Every 'Observer' writer wants to be a novelist.

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

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

As a youngster, I think I said I wanted to be a journalist, but that's a disguise for being a writer.

I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody.

I always wanted to write fiction. Always. As far back as I can remember it's been integral to my sense of myself - everything else was always a displacement activity.

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.

If you think about becoming a writer, that's just really one of the big dreams I had. It's really important to have those dreams and pursue your passions.

I've read science fiction my whole life. I never really dreamed that I'd be a published science fiction writer myself, but a short story I started years ago sort of demanded to be turned into a novel.

Because I'm such a creative person, and I've always got my nose in a book, I suppose it was only a matter of time before non-fiction turned into fiction again. But I never consciously set out to become a writer and I never thought I'd be doing the things I'm doing today.

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 hadn't ever felt any particular calling to be a novelist, and I clearly remember telling a friend of mine about six months before I started work on 'Elsewhere' that I would never write a novel.

I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking, 'I really want to write a novel.'

I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do.

Ever since I was in my teens I had plans at one point in my life to write a novel.

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.

I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child.

Sometimes I ask myself if writing novels is even respectable.

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