William Landay Quotes

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

I had a vision of myself as a novelist because that was where I could be serious. I couldn't with music.

I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face.

From age 7 on, I wanted to be a writer.

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

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 don't reckon there are many writers who start out really expecting writing to be an attainable occupation. Well, I didn't. It was a pipe dream.

Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.

I started writing juvenile novels around 1985. I never really thought of it as a career, but more as a way to make a living.

I wanted to be a novelist for so long.

I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child.

I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer.

If, after five years, I hadn't had anything published, I was just going to forget it and go back to TV full-time until I retired or they put me out to pasture.

When I was about 14 or 15 I decided to become a writer and never for a moment since have I wanted to do anything else.

It was always my dream to write for a living.

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.

I wanted to be a writer and I ended up being a writer.

Every 'Observer' writer wants to be a novelist.

My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.

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

I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did.

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.

And I didn't grow up wanting to be a director. I grew up wanting to be a writer, so for me, that was always the goal - to be a novelist, not a screenwriter. And I think, again, if I didn't have the novels, maybe I'd be much more frustrated by not having directed yet.

I saw novelists as being admirable people and I thought... I thought... maybe, one day, I could be one of them.

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