Tim Cahill Quotes

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

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

I don't think there was a time I ever thought of myself as anything but a writer. I thought I was going to be the next Toni Morrison.

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

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

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

The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.

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 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 always wanted to write about comics and I have written little things here and there but I am not confident in my writing.

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.

My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.

From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world.

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

Of course I planned to write the Great American Novel; that lasted about a week, at which point I decided I had nothing to say that could possibly qualify. So I wrote a romance instead.

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

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.

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 remember all the way back in high school thinking about writing books. And, in fact, I've written a lot of stories. I've got dozens of stories I've written that no one's ever seen.

It's one thing you aspire to: someday, you'll be able to write a book.

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.