Ariel Levy Quotes

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

Every 'Observer' writer wants to be a novelist.

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

It is my desire to be a great writer. I know that I still have a mountain to climb to achieve that.

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.

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

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

Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.

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

So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist. So I wrote the first book - driven by some very real feelings of desperation - and it worked.

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

If you think about becoming a writer, that's just really one of the big dreams I had. It's really important to have those dreams and pursue your passions.

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

Sometimes I ask myself if writing novels is even respectable.

I'm surviving and developing as a writer. I don't know what brings you to mass attention in terms of sales. But I've gotten more and more comfortable with it. Of course if that changes, I'll be comfortable with that. All I can do is write the best books I can.

If, after five years, I hadn't had anything published, I was just going to forget it and go back to TV full-time until I retired or they put me out to pasture.

Didn't you know I'm going to be the greatest, most entertaining author and artist in the world? Well, don't feel badly, I didn't either!

When I write books, I've learned not to have any expectations that I'm going to change the world.

I don't think there was a time I ever thought of myself as anything but a writer. I thought I was going to be the next Toni Morrison.

Ultimately, you've got to have something to say, so a writer should continue learning things throughout life. But I don't think education makes one a writer.

I never wanted to be a celebrity writer. I wanted to be a good writer. I'm still trying to be a good writer. That's what gets me out of bed in the morning.

I don't know if I want to be a writer.

I always, always wanted to be a writer.

Eventually, I realised that I wanted to try to create something myself, and that's what writing novels is. Not because I wanted to put myself in front of the world, but because I wanted to create something that would go out into the world.