Rainbow Rowell Quotes

I started writing juvenile novels around 1985. I never really thought of it as a career, but more as a way to make a living.

I don't want to be famous per se, but I want to write books for as long as I can. And I plan on writing a lot.

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

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

I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid.

When I was 30 or so - by that time I had become an assistant D.A. - I decided I would try to write a novel. To be clear: I did not decide to become a novelist. Honestly, it never crossed my mind that I could actually earn a living as a professional novelist.

I'd never been published when I was young.

I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer.

I had many different careers early on. I knew I wanted to be a writer. But, like so many people, I didn't know how to be one - other than just do it. I didn't know what form it would take.

There are plenty of paths to becoming a writer, but I think the most reliable ones involve total commitment: writing for magazines and newspapers, teaching writing, editing books, representing authors.

But how do I get to having to write a book?... It was a mother who bore me, not an inkwell!

I never thought I'd be a person who would want to write books...I promise you not a single English teacher I've ever had would have thought that this would be going on right now.

Not everybody thought they could be a dentist or an automobile mechanic but everybody knew they could be a writer.

I first tried a novel when I was 14. First finished one when I was 16. First started working on stuff that had a chance of being salable in my early 20s, then didn't write much fiction at all because I was in grad school.

I sold a book six years after I left an MFA program. In between, there was a lot of endurance of poverty and a lot of fighting off doubt. It's all a part of the process of being or becoming a writer.

I am a writer (and one day I'll be an author). For a long time I was a bookseller (who wrote) or a TV producer (who wrote), but for the last decade or so, its been "writer."

I always wanted to be a writer since I was around 12 years old and I wrote my first book.

I always knew I wanted to be a writer.

I don't reckon there are many writers who start out really expecting writing to be an attainable occupation. Well, I didn't. It was a pipe dream.

I tried almost every genre. I decided at 14 I wanted to be a writer. I think I had to wait until they invented word processors to get serious about it, but I really tried every genre, and fantasy was the one that gave me the scope to do the most... you could play with worlds more.

I want a career writing these novels that I can be proud of. And then I want one as a screenwriter.

I knew I wanted to be a writer before I knew that being a writer was possible.

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

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

I always thought of myself as a kind of literary bureaucrat. And that was never going to be enough for me.