Sherwood Smith Quotes

As a youngster, I think I said I wanted to be a journalist, but that's a disguise for being a writer.

I'm 85 years old. I've been in business since I was a teenager, practically; I was in grade school, and I even had a paper route. I always had a job so I could have money to spend on girls.

I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager.

I was writing my first book when I was in college. I was a teenager.

I wrote short stories when I was a teenager, but they weren't any good and I kinda knew it.

I wrote as a teenager, and once I started acting, you know, you're learning lines, you're doing other people's words, it takes up a lot of time. Especially if you're dedicated to what you're doing, you're trying to do a decent job at it. But I would have said to myself, "Write more, please."

I always wanted to write, ever since I was a kid. I started writing at the age of 11. All I wanted to do was finish my education and have my nights free for writing.

It's always hard to write and get your words out there, to find an editor, a publisher - readers! - who are going to appreciate them.

I envy other writers who claim to have a backlog of books they'd like to write.

I always knew that was what I wanted to do - to write, particularly poetry.

I'll never be a TV writer.

In school, I used to write scripts and all that good stuff.

I was a dramatic kid. I was always like, 'Watch me put on my play, Mom and Dad! You have to watch me put on all these outfits and do this play!' But my family is very academic and straightforward and normal Midwestern people, so the idea that I could act as an actual job wasn't really there.

I'd been acting since I was a teenager. I'd come to the point where I was writing my own movies of the week for TV. That was fun.

I've always liked to write, but I never thought I could make a career out of it.

The way a small child might dream of visiting Disneyland, I dreamed of writing books. Never did I think my poems would become that.

I've been a musician and a songwriter for years, since I was a teenager, and made my living doing that on and off for a long time, so when it came to writing comedy material, it was the thing that came easiest to me, the most natural way of writing.

I saw the short stories people were doing on Kindle and really liked the idea of seeing something I'd written on that screen.

I was 16 years old at the Supervalu Store in Chaska, Minnesota, working as a bag boy, and with one of my checks I went out and bought a $70 pillow in 1977. Who does that as a teenager?

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

I loved writing when I was a kid and thought about being a writer then. But I didn't have the confidence or belief that I could earn a living that way, so I never took myself seriously.

I definitely thought I was going to write books. I wrote a couple of children's books when I was like 11 when I was a child myself!

Hopefully, if I get enough of a fan army together, people will let me write fiction.

Toni Morrison was a big influence on my work since I was a teenager, what she did with English. I joke that I think she speaks 20 Englishes simultaneously, that she knows how to do that.

I was introduced to money as a teenager, my friends had nice things. It came naturally to me to try and make money.