Diana Gabaldon Quotes

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

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.

Sometime around 2006, I decided I had missed my true calling as a young adult author.

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.

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.

When I was 23 and about to go to law school, I thought I'd spend the summer writing a novel.

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 first tried a novel when I was 14. First finished one when I was 16. First started working on stuff that had a chance of being salable in my early 20s, then didn't write much fiction at all because I was in grad school.

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.

I always wanted to write as much as perform.

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

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

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

I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.

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.

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

So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist. So I wrote the first book - driven by some very real feelings of desperation - and it worked.

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

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.

There are plenty of books that tell you how to become a writer, but not one that suggests how, if you want a normal life, you might reverse the process.

I was a writer before 'Eat, Pray, Love,' and I'll be a writer after it's over. It's what I want to do for the rest of my life.

After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction.

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