Dylan Moran Quotes

I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals; I was involved in school plays; I wrote essays, so there was no definite moment when I said, 'Now I'm a writer.' I've always been a writer.

I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.

I was one of those kids who always wrote.

Now I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am.

I want to write more, because I think I've got a story to tell.

So, I guess motherhood and the threat of not being able to pay my rent inspired me to be a novelist. But as far as what inspired me to be a writer, it's the stories. It sounds very cliched, but the stories rise up and demand to be told. They always have done, long before I became a writer.

I've been writing, in one way or another, for as long as I can remember.

I love to write. I have always loved writing. That was my first love.

I've been writing since I was 19.

I've been writing for a long time.

I was always writing, since I was, like, 12.

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.

I've always been a writer.

I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.

I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.

I always knew I wanted to be a writer.

I am, in some sense, a writer. Even though I kinda downplay the word thing, I do enjoy writing sometimes.

I enjoy writing.

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

As far as I'm concerned, I'm a writer who's writing books, and therefore, I don't want to die. You'd miss the end of the book wouldn't you? You can't die with an unfinished book.

That is how you get to be a writer, incidentally: you feel somehow marginal, somehow slightly off-balance all the time.

I love to write. It's my first love.

I think of myself now as a writer, although I wouldn't go as far as to say 'novelist' because that sounds like a Victorian person.

People ask me, 'What do you do?' And I tell them I'm a writer, but always with the silent reservation, 'I am, of course, not really a writer. Hemingway was a writer.'