William P. Young Quotes

I didn't plan to be a comedian. I didn't plan to be a drag queen. It just kind of evolved.

I never intended to become a writer.

I blundered into writing.

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

I didn't really choose to write; I more or less fell into it.

I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines.

I don't think anybody planned for me to be an actor. I didn't. I didn't know this was what I was going to do.

I've always known what I'm meant to do. The path of my life has been about discovering what I need to do to support myself as a writer.

I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.

I can't say that I ever actually decided to become a writer. It kind of snuck up on me.

So to answer your question, I'm not entirely sure how I ended up where I am today, in the sense that nobody in my family is an actor. It just happened by mistake.

I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that's the last thing I wanted.

I had no idea I was going to have a career in the theater. I did not plan it.

I didn't intend to be a novelist. I didn't intend to be anything. I thought I'd be a journalist.

It was not like I planned even to be a choreographer. It just happened to me somehow.

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

If you looked at my resume in the years leading up to Flickr, I worked in a dive shop in landlocked Arkansas; I was a starving artist. I just arrived at the thing I love to do accidentally.

No, I never thought that I would be a writer. I had always been told I could write well, but it never occurred to me that I might make my living that way.

The first thing I tried to write was a novel, when I took that time off in grad school. Then I didn't finish it. I went back to school, and then I started writing nonfiction kind of by accident.

I'm only a freelance TV presenter and, in many ways, it's all just been a massive fluke.

I didn't even plan Bollywood! I did my first film just to experience something new, and not start a career!

I never even knew I would end up becoming an actor. It was coincidental for me. Once I did it, I realised it's what I really want to do.

Basically, I always wanted to be an author but went through all these other jobs while getting up the nerve to finally go for it with my writing! Thank goodness it worked; who knows what I might have done next?

Cricket was never my first choice. I never wanted to be a sportsperson. It just happened. It was destiny.

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