Bobbie Ann Mason Quotes

I am a writer - that is what I am before being a performer or musician. I love waking up in the morning and then going to sleep that night with something that did not exist.

When I was really young, my ambition wasn't to do science. I didn't really know that I could. It was to write a great novel.

I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.

My mom was dying for me to write a book, she was my biggest advocate.

Without question, I've either got to be a writer, or I fail.

In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.

I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday.

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I wrote when I was in kindergarten. I was a reader and a re-reader. That's the main reason I became a writer.

Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.

My dream was, and always had been, to write a book. To be a writer.

Films can make you dream. They allow you to imagine a different world. It's why I decided to become a filmmaker. I wanted that even though it seemed impossible.

Hope is a key ingredient in what drives creativity - the hope of bringing to life what exists in the imagination, of transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary - so it's completely logical that Hollywood is the entertainment capital of the world. It's full of people bursting with the desire to make the world laugh, cry, think.

When I wrote my stories in elementary school, I signed them all 'Karen E. Bender' with the squiggly 'E.' I wanted, from an early age, to be a writer, and that name - that E - was a way of pretending I knew how to do it.

I don't know if I want to be a writer.

I dreamed of being an artist.

It isn't about games, for me, personally, and it never really was. It was about creating something - anything - far bigger than yourself.

I've discovered my vocation. I want to be a writer.

Count the dreams of your mind; if the numbers of the dreams exceeds the number of achievements, you are young.

I wanted to fly when I was little.

'Doctor Who' is part of my science fictional DNA. You could take it out of me, and I'd probably still have ended up being a writer, but almost certainly not the same one.

Ambition is a form of creativity.

Growing up, I didn't know any writers and felt somewhat isolated.

I've not done badly for a boy from Stockwell, where I used to gaze at the silver screen in wonderment, little realising I'd be a part of this magical world.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.