Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

As for writing novels - it's what I've done for 30 some-odd years. I can't suddenly say I'm going to take up golf. I need something in my life. As long as I can write a coherent sentence, I'll keep at 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.

I'm a fairly ordinary person - a lifelong reader, a former software engineer, and former math teacher. I come from a wonderful family of teachers, musicians, librarians, and engineers. I think I surprised them as well as my friends and coworkers when I took up writing as a hobby and let it take over my life!

And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.

I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I would love that most.

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'm a compulsive storyteller, an avid reader, and have always nurtured the secret goal of spending my life as a writer.

I've wanted to be a writer since I was four years old!

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.

Writing is as big a part of my career as acting is, financially and time wise. So, yeah, I love it. That's all I wanted to do since I was young was be a writer. So that and acting are the two most important aspects of my career.

I have always loved to read, and now that I have penned 10 novels and a few magazine articles, I have fallen seriously in love with writing stories and seeing them go out into the world. It's magical, you know?

As long as I can remember, I wanted to be a writer.

Sometime early in life, I developed the notion - one which I have never relinquished - that writing a novel is the very finest thing a person can do.

I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.

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

I always knew I wanted to be a writer.

For me, there is nothing worse than the knowledge that my life holds nothing for me but being a writer.

I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did.

I was always meant to be a writer. I've felt that way since I was a child.

I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing.

To be honest, the only thing I ever really wanted to be was a writer - since I read 'Charlotte's Web' as a child.

I like the idea of being a working writer, not of saying that it's going to take me 30 years to write my magnum opus.

When I was young, I wrote everything, and I thought I would be an all around writer, that I would write everything.

After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.

I got into writing in college... well, in elementary school. But in college, I started writing seriously and had a professor who read my writing and gave me permission to pursue that as a real effort and time-consuming effort.