Anne M. Mulcahy Quotes

Every 'Observer' writer wants to be a novelist.

I pretty much always wanted to be a writer.

There was a part of me that always wanted to be an editor.

I consider myself a writer, foremost - a nonfiction writer.

I'm not a writer; I'm not a novelist.

I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist.

I want to be a writer someday.

I am very fortunate in that I have spent pretty much my whole life being a writer, and before I was a writer, I was a storyteller.

My mom is a teacher, my dad was a writer for television, his dad was a writer for television, and combining those two has been sort of the goal of my life.

I started as a writer. I had the dumb act, but I made my living from writing.

I have always aspired to be a writer, be it as an author or a screenwriter, whatever the medium.

In my mind, I still think - and wish - that I'm going to be a journalist or a writer. That's been my dream job my entire life.

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

I always knew I wanted to be a writer.

Writers are so important.

My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.

If I could wave a magic wand and be anything, I'd be a really respected, really successful author. That's a hard combination to get, though. I really enjoy acting, and it's easier, frankly.

Writing was something I have always been interested in. I've grown up in a household full of books, with both my parents English teachers and very booky.

I've always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got a writing scholarship. It's always been a passion of mine.

As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in one night, and I really wanted my company to publish it, but we lost it to another house. It's such a wonderful combination of beautiful writing and suspenseful storytelling.

I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic - an academic treatise about publishing from the WWII era.

I always wanted to be a writer, from being a little kid onwards. My dad and my mum both had phases when that was what they did.

I never thought about what I would write. I just come from such a big family of storytellers.

As long as I can remember, I wanted to be a writer.

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