Kate DiCamillo Quotes

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

I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught, but that relentless desire to write has to come from within.

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

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

The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is to write the book that you would want to read, and hope other people agree.

What's important with writing is that it comes from a place you absolutely love. I'm writing for film and TV. In America, they call people like me 'multi-hyphenators.'

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'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 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 think I became a writer because of my love of stories and an inability to stop asking, 'What if?'

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

I was always meant to be a writer. I've felt that way since I was a child.

How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.'

I was always writing the books that I wanted to write, books that demanded to be written at the time. But, like most writers, you start off feeling your way.

I wanted to write.

The only way to be a novelist, to think that you can create something others will give themselves up to for a dozen hours or more, is to have psychotic self-belief.

I'm not one of those true writers who can't bear not to be writing. Yet it's one of the most important things in my life.

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

It's a lot to expect of yourself, to write a novel in a year. Anyway, you don't write a novel, you write a scene, and then another scene.

I love writing. I've pursued it with a passion.

Write. Enjoy writing. Then, and only then, worry about the business end of it. Start loving your hobby, and then you can't go too wrong.

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.