Ayelet Waldman Quotes

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

I hope to be with you as a writer for a very long time, and I hope that you will enjoy reading my work, because readers are the highest form of life on this planet.

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

I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

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

I started to read at a very early age, and I just thought that books and reading were really the most wonderful thing that life had to offer. I think I wrote my very first piece of fiction at the age of 12, but then I didn't write any more for quite a long time.

Literature has always been the greatest fuel for my imagination.

I fantasised about becoming an author and wrote my first book at 18 - an introspective novel set in the 1920s.

I'm hoping to get started on a new novel.

I started writing my own things when I was about 8.

As a kid, I dreamt of becoming a writer. My most exciting pastime was reading novels; in fact, I would read anything I could find.

I wrote a novel, so now they can call me a novelist. I tell stories; that's it.

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

For the years I spent working on it, 'Constellation' was the only novel I knew how to write, so maybe I still abided by the maxim? Regardless, I prefer the maxim: Write what you want to know, rather than what you already know.

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

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.

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

I just want to sit in my room and write books.

I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe.

I write novels and other things.

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.

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.'

I tell people you should write what you love to read because that's where your passion is.

At the moment, I'm toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays, so the book idea - which needs empty space in my head - is barely formed yet.