J. B. Priestley Quotes

I love being a writer so much that I almost can't believe that I am one.

Unfortunately for my family, they have a writer in the family.

I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of writing, but writing is what I was meant to do.

I am a writer - that is what I am before being a performer or musician. I love waking up in the morning and then going to sleep that night with something that did not exist.

Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life.

I just knew I would be a writer. It just seemed the only sensible thing to do.

I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.

My theory is that I decided to be a writer when I was about seven, but of course it is not as simple as that. Like most writers, I had to work at other things to earn a living and wrote mainly in the evenings, often very late at night, for many years.

I am very fortunate in that I have spent pretty much my whole life being a writer, and before I was a writer, I was a storyteller.

I'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more.

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.

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 became a writer out of the desire to express myself.

One has to be ambitious to start writing.

I love being a writer. I don't really want to do anything else!

I was always attracted and repelled by the idea of being a writer.

Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years.

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

I always knew I wanted to be a writer.

I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I would love that most.

Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.

But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to do; with what has to be done by a writer in order to stay alive as a writer.

To be a writer, you need to like spending a lot of time by yourself in the company of imaginary people.

Actually, I can't remember when I was not writing.

I'm a compulsive storyteller, an avid reader, and have always nurtured the secret goal of spending my life as a writer.