Sophie Kinsella Quotes

I was a very happy banker, but I feel happier as an author.

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.

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.

The only real reason to write professionally is that you love it enough.

I really had to decide why I was writing. I had no interest in going back to law; I very briefly - for about six hours - considered going to get my MBA, but in the end, I realized that the only work I really wanted to do was write.

I always imagined a writer was someone who lived in an attic in Paris, but my mum instilled in me a belief that I could do anything - so I ended up writing my first novel while working nights as a news reporter.

I just love what I do so much.

I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.

In 1982, when I was almost 26 years old, I decided I wanted to write fiction. I'd majored in journalism in college, and I'd always assumed I would write nonfiction.

Well, I'm a writer by nature, and I got a little bit - a little taste of a daily fast-paced writing job, writing career, and I loved it.

I became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since.

I don't see myself ever retiring, unless it's for something that I like better, and so far I like directing a lot but I don't see the necessity to retire from anything unless there's a really great alternative.

I've always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got a writing scholarship. It's always been a passion of mine.

I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist.

I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

I no longer look at my life and times in the motion picture industry as my career. I just look at it now as something I like and want to do.

I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.

The decision to write full time was made when I was twenty-eight years old and had just had two small plays accepted for BBC Radio.

But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me.

I didn't leave Wall Street because the work was against my nature - I do have a pretty good head for numbers. I left because I had this love for writing.

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.

After I finished college, I got a job on Wall Street as a derivatives trader, but after a couple years of it, I was calling in sick in order to work on my novel.

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.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.