David Mamet Quotes

I could have been a writer.

I always, always wanted to be a writer.

I've always been a writer.

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 don't call myself a writer.

I really wanted to be a writer.

Sometimes I ask myself if writing novels is even respectable.

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.

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.

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

I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.

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.

Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market. It may well have vanished by the time your book's ready.

I knew I was a writer; I wanted to be a writer, but I didn't know what to write.

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

I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.

I think writing is such a great talent, and if I was better, I would love to be a writer.

There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.

I've been writing since I was very young, even before I was a teenager. As far as I'm concerned, I am a writer - whether my writing's spoken or written in a blog, paper, book or printed on the side of a submarine.

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

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.

My intent was to gain experience for fiction I eventually hoped to write. But there's no question I was drawn in by the hope that journalism would be a creative, thrilling environment.

When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately.