Sarah Addison Allen Quotes

I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed of escape.

I write about what haunts me, and I write the books I myself am dying to read. I love it. I can't think of anything I'd rather do.

I always wanted to write fiction. Always. As far back as I can remember it's been integral to my sense of myself - everything else was always a displacement activity.

I'm always fascinated by why a person becomes a writer.

I love telling stories and I love writing so the fact that I can do it professionally is something that I've always been very grateful for.

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.

As writers, we only aim to please. Or we aimed to please as children, which is why we became writers.

For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write.

I'm one of those sad cases who've never wanted to be anything but a writer. I started writing my first novel when I was five years old. I have no idea what it was about, but I do remember spending considerable time trying to get the title right, though this had more to do with crayon colour than scansion.

I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.

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

I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.

Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge.

I like being a writer.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.

I find contentment in the craft of writing and fulfillment in self-expression.

When I get an artistic itch, I have to scratch it.

I'd heard of writers who say they hate to write. Not me. I love to do it.

I'm not driven. I love writing. My imagination is always working. I write when I have time, and life allows me the time.

I hope and pray that I'll be one of those fortunate people who have many, many books to write. I don't begrudge writing. I love the whole thing!

I've always wanted to be a writer ever since I was in kindergarten, so that was ultimately what I wanted to do with my life.

From when I was a kid I wanted to write. It was so important to me that I was writing my own material.

I just remember always wanting to make things. That was what was really interesting to me, but I had no career goal in sight. I didn't know anybody that had anything to do with show business.

I'm always thinking about stories and ideas, and I have a few I'd like to actively pursue, but as much as I love them, I love the process of creation, and I want to go on and create things for myself, and create new things.