James Rollins Quotes

I've wanted to write ever since I've gotten into comics. I wrote little things for myself when I was doing mini-comics and things, before becoming a professional. But I just figure at some point or another, I've got to make the leap. I just have to do it.

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.

I always was going to be a writer. The other jobs were just to keep me in food. Though I enjoyed the archaeology.

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

Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years.

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 hope to be with you as a writer for a very long time, and I hope that you will enjoy reading my work, because readers are the highest form of life on this planet.

If I did anything 'next', I would do writing.

I love telling stories and I love writing so the fact that I can do it professionally is something that I've always been very grateful for.

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.

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've been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.

Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen.

I will try to write books until I drop dead.

There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.

I want to keep publishing books, and writing and spreading my heartsong through the world.

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 knew I wanted to be a writer at 13. Before that, I told everyone I was going to be an artist.

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.

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.

My dream was, and always had been, to write a book. To be a writer.

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.