Anthony Doerr Quotes

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

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

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.

I don't know if I want to be a writer.

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

Every 'Observer' writer wants to be a novelist.

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

Dreamers become writers, and for me, being a published writer is a dream come true.

As long as I can remember, I wanted to be a writer.

At Marvel, I was lucky enough to work with really talented people, but I always had this nagging thought: 'One day I'll write my own stories.'

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

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

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.

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.

When I settled to writing seriously, which would be in my 30s, I did expect to be published eventually, but my aspirations weren't very high. A published book and a few appreciative readers was my idea of heaven.

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

I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head.

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

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.

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.

I hope to build a reputation as a science-fiction writer. That's the pitch. We'll see.

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

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.