Tobias Wolff Quotes

I've always wanted to be a writer ever since I was in kindergarten, so that was ultimately what I wanted to do with my life.

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.

My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being 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 never really knew I wanted to 'be' a writer, but I was always writing from a very young age. It became more conscious as an ideal when I was in my twenties.

I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody.

I always wanted to be a writer, from being a little kid onwards. My dad and my mum both had phases when that was what they did.

I never wanted to be anything but a writer, and I never let go of it.

I was one of those kids who never wanted to be anything but a novelist. And I don't know a lot of people who truly live the life that they dreamed of.

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 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've known since I was five that I wanted to be a writer.

I was always interested in writing from an early age, but it seemed so far away and inconceivable, like wanting to be an astronaut or a pop star.

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

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

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

I've wanted to be a writer since I was four years old!

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

I always had a passion to write as a young girl.

I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid.

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.

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.

If you think about becoming a writer, that's just really one of the big dreams I had. It's really important to have those dreams and pursue your passions.