Maya Soetoro-Ng Quotes

I've always been a writer. I hope to continue to write books until I can't anymore.

'Some day,' I said, 'I will be an author.'

I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.

I never thought I would grow up writing a book.

I will try to write books until I drop dead.

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

I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.

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

I did a minor in creative writing in college, but I didn't start writing until I stayed at home with my own children.

When I decided I wanted to become an author, I never thought something I wrote would be used as a way to start conversations that are otherwise difficult to begin.

I pretty much always wanted to be a writer.

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

When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer.

When I'm the one who sits down and looks at the blank page and writes it out all the way, then I'll call it my script.

Every 'Observer' writer wants to be a novelist.

I find myself really feeling like it's possible that maybe the greater contribution I'm going to be able to make through this next phase of my life might be as a writer writing wonderful parts for women, or even writing wonderful parts for myself, you know?

Everyone has early fiction fantasies, but it wasn't until my second child Betsy was born that I allowed the urge to write a novel bubble up.

I've always been ambidextrous, writing short stories and novels, and I pretty much have been writing a novel and a handful of short stories every year since '91.

What's funny about that is when I was writing Twilight just for myself and not thinking of it as a book, I was not thinking about publishing, and yet at the same time I was casting it in my head. Because when I read books, I see them very visually.

I have a lot of books I want to write.

As an author, I've never forgotten how to daydream.

For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse.

I'm still surprised to be an author. I wonder what I'll write next?

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.

Writing is as big a part of my career as acting is, financially and time wise. So, yeah, I love it. That's all I wanted to do since I was young was be a writer. So that and acting are the two most important aspects of my career.