Astro Teller Quotes

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.

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.

Although I always loved reading and putting words on paper, I never thought about becoming a writer until I was twelve.

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

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.

At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what this entailed, exactly - a room, I supposed. A room and books and paper and solitude.

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

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.

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

It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing.

I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head.

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

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

As for writing novels - it's what I've done for 30 some-odd years. I can't suddenly say I'm going to take up golf. I need something in my life. As long as I can write a coherent sentence, I'll keep at it.

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 came from a family of incredible storytellers, but I didn't start writing children's books until I was 41 years old.

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.

Every time I finish a book, I say to an imaginary god that I do not believe in, 'Please let me live to write another one.'

I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.

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

I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.

I was not going to use writing for advertising or journalism. I would tend bar, load trucks, chauffeur - do whatever it took. But from the moment I took my first writing workshop, I was a writer.

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