Author Aspiration Quotes

Anyone aspiring to literary greatness should read 'New Grub Street' and weep.

I always wanted to be a children's author, and I have a really big library of children's books. All the ones from when I was little, they are just so beautiful. I read kids' books, and they calm me down.

I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.

I suppose if I was to have to pick a few, Ursula LeGuin would have to top the list. It was while reading her work that I decided I wanted to be an author.

I am a writer (and one day I'll be an author). For a long time I was a bookseller (who wrote) or a TV producer (who wrote), but for the last decade or so, its been "writer."

I should write a book. I've always wanted to write a book. I should write a book about kids who see dead people.

I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.

In seventh grade, with some vague sense that I wanted to be a writer, I crouched in the junior high school library stacks to see where my novels would eventually be filed. It was right after someone named Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. So I grabbed a Vonnegut book, 'Breakfast of Champions' and immediately fell in love.

I always envision myself being a Hemingway type.

I started writing stories at a young age, but not once did it occur to me that I could grow up to be a writer. Who could I look to? My favorite authors were Ann M. Martin and E.L. Konigsburg and Judy Blume, Beverly Cleary and Lois Lowry and Norma Klein. They were all white women, and they seemed so stately to me, so elegant. A whole world away.

I just want to write someone’s favorite book

Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.

I was a huge rereader, so I've read all the Chronicles of Narnia, at minimum, 13 times each. In reading that series, I realized that someone had written those books, and that was that person's job. And I thought, 'That is the job for me. That is the job I'm going to have when I grow up.'

My first book didn't even have a Canadian publisher. And that upset me, because I so wanted a readership up there.

I loved to read when I was a kid, and as soon as I realized that an actual person got to make up the books I loved so much, I decided that that was the job for me.

My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.

You may be surprised to know that growing up, I wanted to be a writer of children's books.

I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.

I write what I can. I think being able to write like Michael Connelly and have a character that goes from novel to novel, or to dramatize history like Vidal or Ellroy, or have an explosively inventive mind like Bulgakov, would be an incredible thing. I don't have that. I only have what I have.

I don't aspire to write like Steve King. Sure, I admire his work, and I think he's a hell of a nice guy; we met shortly after my first Stoker win. I aspire to write like Jonathan Maberry.

My dream was to have a Library of Congress catalogue number, that's all.

I'll be happy if I can gain even the smallest place inside the literary imagination of U.S. readers.

I've wanted to be an author as long as I can remember. English was always my favorite subject at school, so why I went on to do a degree in French is anyone's guess.

I pretty much always wanted to write a series, because I love reading them.

I'd have liked to have been another Faulkner, of course.