Aya Cash Quotes

I'm no lyrical stylist; you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual.

I had been writing poems and stories since I learned to make letters. I had placed poems in a hardcover anthology at the age of 6. And I knew more big words than anyone else in the 10th grade.

There are stories still in existence that I wrote when I was five. However, I did not get published until I was seven.

I have an English literature degree. I wanted to be the next great American novelist from a very early age, but I put it aside for a while, because I got very realistic at one point.

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

From about the age of 15 or 16 I'd had the notion that I wanted to write fiction, and I'd done enough in college to satisfy myself that I had a knack for it - I wouldn't call it "talent" - though I wondered if I'd ever have the guts to actually commit to it.

I ain't no author, man... my writing skills are not of 'New York Times' best-seller quality, trust and believe it ain't. My vocabulary ain't.

I aspired from early on to write a novel, to be in the 'New Yorker,' to be on Broadway, and at least in a fleeting way, I got all those things.

My brother used to say that I wrote faster than he could read. He wrote two books - of poems - better than all mine put together.

If I were to have a dream job, it would probably be a poet. Then again, I don't think I'm a very good poet!

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.

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

I always thought of myself as a kind of literary bureaucrat. And that was never going to be enough for me.

Many, many people can write books. I just happen to be one of them.

Oh, I'm a pretty bad poet. This has been corroborated by others.

I'd never been published when I was young.

I'm not in the Shakespeare stakes. I have no ambition.

Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real career. I thought you had to have some literary pedigree to be a successful author, the son of Hemingway or Fitzgerald.

At the age of twenty, having published nothing and having had little guidance in my reading, I decided that I wanted to write.

I wanted to be a novelist from a very early age - 11 or 12 - but I don't think I ever thought I would write historical fiction. I never thought I might write academic history because I simply wasn't good enough!

Back in the 1980s, when I was a lowly editorial assistant by day and trying to be a novelist by night, no god reigned so supreme as the god of literary prose.

Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess.

I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11.

I think it's great when writers get recognition; it doesn't happen very often. I just don't want that writer to be me. Let it be Aaron Sorkin or, you know, somebody good.

I started writing when I was 11. In my late teens, I was writing short stories of every conceivable type and sent them to everything from 'Future Science Fiction' to 'The Sewanee Review.'