Tom Rachman Quotes

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

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.

And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.

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.

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

My aunt got me interested in journalism - she found an old typewriter, had it worked over, put it on the dining room table, gave me a stack of paper and said, 'Play like you're a writer.'

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.

Many fiction writers write for the critics or for themselves; they forget the common reader. I never do. I don't think journalism clashes with my fiction; on the contrary, it helps enormously.

I was not going to use writing for advertising or journalism. I would tend bar, load trucks, chauffeur - do whatever it took. But from the moment I took my first writing workshop, I was a writer.

The first time I can remember thinking that I would like to be a writer came in sixth grade, when our teacher Mrs. Crandall gave us an extended period of time to write a long story. I loved doing it. I started working seriously at becoming a writer when I was seventeen.

I'm a writer and this is what I love to do.

I used to write stories a lot because you had to fill your hours some other way than watching television. So my imagination was vivid, and I used to write a lot of stories. I wrote a novel, which I still have, which is so awful.

At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what this entailed, exactly - a room, I supposed. A room and books and paper and solitude.

I pretty much always wanted to be a writer.

I cannot recall any moment of clarity about becoming a writer. I always liked to read. That's what did it.

I didn't really start to write until I was almost 30, and I started with the short stories.

I always, always wanted to be a writer.

What I found so captivating about the idea of being a writer was having the ability to write down all these things I made up in my head so other people could see them.

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

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.

Every 'Observer' writer wants to be a novelist.

I've always been a writer.

When I started to write, I realised that you need a bit of both: the overall context as well as the individual's experience.

I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.