Steven Pressfield Quotes

Many people who want to be writers don't really want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a book in print.

I dreamed of becoming a writer. And this dream is about to become a reality with the publication of my first, and hopefully not my last, children's book.

Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.

I've always had ideas for more books than I can write.

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

I don't aspire to direct like many actors. I would aspire most likely to do some writing, but I haven't had a chance to do that.

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

I cling to the fantasy that I could have done something more creative. Like actually writing a script, or writing a book. But the awful truth is that I... probably can't!

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.

Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.

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

I was always a keen reader. I jotted down one or two things, but it never occurred to me to think of a job in writing. I thought that writers were like demi-gods. I don't know what I thought.

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.

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.

My family was all police and hard hats at the refineries; they didn't know what to think about me. So I became a closet writer.

TV is the place that writers want to be.

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

I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word.

There is always a producer within an actor. You just wait for the right time to start functioning as one.

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 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.

Honestly, I never dreamed of being a writer; it felt too unrealistic to even dream about.

Before I had published anything, I still hung out with people who liked to write. None of us had published, so there was no talk about the business, and there was probably a lot more angsty talk back then. But these days maybe there are some more laments about the culture, but I would say no.