Penny Jordan Quotes

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.

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 didn't know I was gonna be a writer when I started out.

When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer.

My son had toyed with the idea of writing and trying to write a little bit, so that kind of gave me the bug to write also.

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.

When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about largely because I liked the way the word 'goat' looked on the page, but I decided then and there that I wanted to be a writer. That desire never changed.

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

I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist.

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

Although I always loved reading and putting words on paper, I never thought about becoming a writer until I was twelve.

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

With this first novel, I am just above the foothills, but I see the path to the top, and it is my desire to write compelling stories about everything that I find of interest.

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.

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.

Writers always say, 'I always knew I wanted to be a writer; when I was a three-month-old foetus a pen formed in my hand and I began to scratch my first story on the inside of my mother's womb.' I started later, in my early twenties.

I've wanted to be a writer since I was seven, but I didn't grow up in family where people aspired to live as writers.

I always wanted to be a writer. In the beginning, I thought I had to rewrite 'Gone with the Wind,' but eventually, I found my way and realized that wasn't me.

I've known since I was five that I wanted to be a writer.

When I was a kid and wanted to grow up to be a writer, I assumed I would be writing about animals and children because that's what I cared about and read about. But I never did.

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.

Eventually, I realised that I wanted to try to create something myself, and that's what writing novels is. Not because I wanted to put myself in front of the world, but because I wanted to create something that would go out into the world.

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

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

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