Karin Slaughter Quotes

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

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

I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did.

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 was one of those kids who never wanted to be anything but a novelist. And I don't know a lot of people who truly live the life that they dreamed of.

I love being able to be a writer. That's what I moved to New York to be.

I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager.

I've wanted to be a writer since I was seven, but I didn't grow up in family where people aspired to live as writers.

I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.

My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.

I had a vision of myself as a novelist because that was where I could be serious. I couldn't with music.

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.

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.

Zombie books were going to be my passion projects, but certainly not pay the bills. I thought I was going to have to get a real job on a sitcom or something, and have my zombie books to remind myself I was still a writer at heart. I never thought I could actually pay my bills and write what I wanted.

It's fun being paid to read stuff and air your opinion about it - pretty much a dream job for a writer.

I knew I wanted to be a writer at 13. Before that, I told everyone I was going to be an artist.

Writing was my first occupation, begun at age 23.

Let's be clear - for people like me, who are obsessed with story and for whom words are their medium, writing is the best job possible. I work hard, but I earn more than the national average wage while I play with my imagination, and for me, that's a dream.

You don't say, I'm going to be a writer when I grow up - at least I didn't.

And sometimes I sit down to write, because that is what I like to do more and more in the future.

I didn't really realize that writing... would be fun and people would pay you to do it. Being an astronaut is a glory profession, and so is writing, in a way.

When I was about 14 or 15 I decided to become a writer and never for a moment since have I wanted to do anything else.

I always wanted to write, ever since I was a kid. I started writing at the age of 11. All I wanted to do was finish my education and have my nights free for writing.

I wanted to be a writer and I ended up being a writer.

I've known since I was five that I wanted to be a writer.