Vikas Swarup Quotes

When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about largely because I liked the way the word 'goat' looked on the page, but I decided then and there that I wanted to be a writer. That desire never changed.

I didn't do any writing seriously until I was in my mid-twenties. But I've never really thought of myself as doing anything else. I've always wanted to write.

I never really knew I wanted to 'be' a writer, but I was always writing from a very young age. It became more conscious as an ideal when I was in my twenties.

Once I finished 'Eileen,' I wanted to write more novels. I don't see myself stopping any time soon.

I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist.

I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write.

Writing was not a childhood dream of mine. I do not recall longing to write as a student. I wasn't sure how to start.

My son had toyed with the idea of writing and trying to write a little bit, so that kind of gave me the bug to write also.

From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world.

I always had a passion to write as a young girl.

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.

Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.

I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking, 'I really want to write a novel.'

Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to write the books I had to write.

I don't think I knew I would be a writer. I wanted to become a writer, and I tried to write.

Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.

Writers always say, 'I always knew I wanted to be a writer; when I was a three-month-old foetus a pen formed in my hand and I began to scratch my first story on the inside of my mother's womb.' I started later, in my early twenties.

I'm first and foremost a writer. I followed my personal legend, my childhood dream of becoming a writer, but I can't say why I'm one.

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.

I even dream about writing. I'm talking seeing words across the page, whole paragraphs.

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.

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.

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.

So many people romanticize writing. And I get it. But I never once wanted to be a writer.

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