Cush Jumbo Quotes

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

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

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 enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.

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

I've always been a writer.

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.

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

I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.

I love to write. It's my first love.

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.

The first time I can remember thinking that I would like to be a writer came in sixth grade, when our teacher Mrs. Crandall gave us an extended period of time to write a long story. I loved doing it. I started working seriously at becoming a writer when I was seventeen.

I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it.

I cannot recall any moment of clarity about becoming a writer. I always liked to read. That's what did it.

I started out writing stories because that's all I wanted to read, but now I don't know if I'll ever write one again.

I'm way into writing, as much as I can.

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.

For the last few years, I've enjoyed writing my own stuff since studying creative writing at school, and as I've grown up, I've realised how much I enjoy escaping into a world that I've created myself. So I've kept that up as a hobby.

I wasn't a frustrated writer who really wanted to act or a frustrated writer who really wanted to direct. I was really happy writing screenplays, and there's a lot of people who just do that - they're screenwriters.

When I'm the one who sits down and looks at the blank page and writes it out all the way, then I'll call it my script.

I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.

I can't do a film if I don't start with the writing.

I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.

I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.