Carl Hiaasen Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.

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

From age 7 on, I wanted to be a writer.

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.

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

I took two fiction-writing courses in college and majored in literature. I felt that I had a knack though I wouldn't go so far as to call it a talent. But it scared me. I felt it was a childish thing wanting to write and that I would forget about it eventually.

I wanted to be a novelist for so long.

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

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 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.

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

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

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.