Rhianna Pratchett Quotes

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.

We have this habit of romanticizing the lives of writers. I remember when I was a kid, I was like, 'I want to be Kurt Vonnegut.'

I have written more than 100 novels and novellas since 1983 - I was first published in 1985. There was an overlap of three years with my teaching career, but finally I felt good enough about my writing career to quit teaching and write full time.

I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.

I've always been a writer. I hope to continue to write books until I can't anymore.

You're too busy writing the next book to worry about Googling yourself all the time.

For most of my life - well, maybe half of my life, but basically until I was in my mid-20s - I wrote stories. From the time I was 5 or 6 until I was 25. And I read a lot of stories during that time.

My hope is that I can continue writing and, in the future, I can just be Maya Soetoro-Ng.

'Some day,' I said, 'I will be an author.'

I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating.

My mother wrote a couple of romances when I was a kid, and I always saw books in our bookshelf with 'Schroeder' on the spine.

Never, ever become a writer. It's a nightmare.

I have written my whole life. I remember writing as a small child.

My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made $3,000. All this time I was a housewife being supported by a husband. I was very lucky.

I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed.

Actually, I can't remember when I was not writing.

For 20 years, Simon & Schuster asked me, 'Why don't you write your autobiography?'

I worked with my dad for 15 years. I apprenticed under him and decided I wanted to become an architect. So I went to college for it and then the acting bug got me.

I will try to write books until I drop dead.

I came from a family of incredible storytellers, but I didn't start writing children's books until I was 41 years old.

Once 'Walk Two Moons' received the Newbery Medal, I decided to write full-time. Partly because there seemed to be an audience out there who wanted to read what I wanted to write, and partly because I could now support myself financially through writing.

I think of myself now as a writer, although I wouldn't go as far as to say 'novelist' because that sounds like a Victorian person.

I'm really lucky in that I can do lots of different things. It must be really hard to just be a poet or just be a novelist - a constant cycle of effort and exhaustion and recuperation.

I just love doing different things, which is what being a working author is like.

I knew I wanted to be a writer at 13. Before that, I told everyone I was going to be an artist.