Andy Rooney Quotes

Unfortunately for my family, they have a writer in the family.

Screenwriting and the movie stuff could all disappear tomorrow, but to sit down with my laptop and still tell stories is my day job. I didn't believe I'd actually get to do it for a living.

I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write.

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

I always knew I wanted to be a writer.

I'm a compulsive storyteller, an avid reader, and have always nurtured the secret goal of spending my life as a writer.

I was always meant to be a writer. I've felt that way since I was a child.

As for writing novels - it's what I've done for 30 some-odd years. I can't suddenly say I'm going to take up golf. I need something in my life. As long as I can write a coherent sentence, I'll keep at it.

I was a writer before 'Eat, Pray, Love,' and I'll be a writer after it's over. It's what I want to do for the rest of my life.

When I say that basically writing is a hard hustle, I don't mean that it is a bad life, if one can get away with it. It's the miracle of miracles to make a living by the typer.

I love being a writer so much that I almost can't believe that I am one.

I love being a writer. I don't really want to do anything else!

Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years.

And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.

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

I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I would love that most.

For me, there is nothing worse than the knowledge that my life holds nothing for me but being a writer.

Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.

But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to do; with what has to be done by a writer in order to stay alive as a writer.

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

So many people romanticize writing. And I get it. But I never once wanted to be a writer.

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

I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing.

To be honest, the only thing I ever really wanted to be was a writer - since I read 'Charlotte's Web' as a child.

I've been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.