Lisa Joy Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I always had a passion to write as a young girl.

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'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid.

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.

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.

Writing was not a childhood dream of mine. I do not recall longing to write as a student. I wasn't sure how to start.

I wanted to be a novelist for so long.

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.

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've wanted to be a writer since I was, like, 10.

I've always wanted to be a writer ever since I was in kindergarten, so that was ultimately what I wanted to do with my life.

I've always wanted to be a writer. Ever since I learned to read, I've wanted to share stories with others the way my favorite writers shared their stories with me.

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

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