Robert Adamson Quotes

I don't want to be famous per se, but I want to write books for as long as I can. And I plan on writing a lot.

I want a career writing these novels that I can be proud of. And then I want one as a screenwriter.

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 didn't have a dream of being a press secretary, I had a dream of being a playwright; I had a dream of being a novelist and a poet.

When I was young, I wrote everything, and I thought I would be an all around writer, that I would write everything.

I want to be an author.

I hope to build a reputation as a science-fiction writer. That's the pitch. We'll see.

When I was 30 or so - by that time I had become an assistant D.A. - I decided I would try to write a novel. To be clear: I did not decide to become a novelist. Honestly, it never crossed my mind that I could actually earn a living as a professional novelist.

All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.

It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career is to have some other trade.

Writing is a intensely personal activity. I can pen down my best thoughts when I'm alone. But when one is elevated into the stature of an author, you have to think about your books in terms of their business angle.

My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine.

Back in the 1980s, when I was a lowly editorial assistant by day and trying to be a novelist by night, no god reigned so supreme as the god of literary prose.

I wanted to be a novelist for so long.

Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer.

Naturally, it was easier for me to envision becoming a novelist than it is for most people. I had two great in-house teachers; I had parents who considered a career in the arts a real possibility rather than a dreamy arrow shot into the sky.

When people asked me what I was going to do when I grow up, I always said, 'I'm going to be a writer. I'm going to write screenplays. I'm going to write books. I'm going to write plays. That's what I'm going to do.'

I've wanted to be a writer since I was seven, but I didn't grow up in family where people aspired to live as writers.

I'm an author. And writers write books. And writing books is a full-time career.

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 hoped to be able to write a novel which would enable me to live on it while I wrote the next.

I was pushing for a career in poetry and of course the received wisdom was that you would never make a living at it.

I'm not ever getting a Pulitzer prize and my books aren't on high school reading lists, but for better or worse I'm a working writer.

I had a million jobs before I managed to make a living out of poetry.

I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.