Dennis Lehane Quotes

I've always been a writer. I hope to continue to write books until I can't anymore.

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

I always knew I wanted to be a writer.

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

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!

Once I finished 'Eileen,' I wanted to write more novels. I don't see myself stopping any time soon.

I never intended to become a writer.

I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write.

My intent was to gain experience for fiction I eventually hoped to write. But there's no question I was drawn in by the hope that journalism would be a creative, thrilling environment.

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.

The first time I can remember thinking that I would like to be a writer came in sixth grade, when our teacher Mrs. Crandall gave us an extended period of time to write a long story. I loved doing it. I started working seriously at becoming a writer when I was seventeen.

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.

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 cannot recall any moment of clarity about becoming a writer. I always liked to read. That's what did it.

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

I'm way into writing, as much as I can.

I have always aspired to be a writer, be it as an author or a screenwriter, whatever the medium.

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

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.