Writing Aspiration Quotes

Writing was something I always as a kid thought would be fabulous and glamorous to be a writer.

My greatest regret as a writer is that I've never been able to include as many jokes as I'd like.

The first real thought that I had of something that I might do was to write for car magazines, because I always had a car thing.

How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books?

When I read 'Greenberg,' I had a really strong sense if I could be any kind of writer I wanted to be, I'd be this kind of writer. And I felt like, even in my experiences, what writing I had done, even on a small scale, when it was good, it shared some quality with it.

I always knew writing a novel was a great thing.

I've read science fiction my whole life. I never really dreamed that I'd be a published science fiction writer myself, but a short story I started years ago sort of demanded to be turned into a novel.

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.

When I was growing up, I had no idea that I could possibly become a writer. I wrote endlessly in journals - a practice I maintained for a long time, well into the writing life I had no idea I could ever have.

I want to write a novel so profound that it would suffocate a fly.

I knew I wanted to be a writer before I knew that being a writer was possible.

I have been aspiring to write some sort of literature for a long time.

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.

I wanted to be a novelist from a very early age - 11 or 12 - but I don't think I ever thought I would write historical fiction. I never thought I might write academic history because I simply wasn't good enough!

I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.

The first time I went to Helene Hanff's apartment at 305 East 72nd Street, it was 1977, and I was a 16-year-old girl who wanted to be a writer.

I've wanted to be a writer since I was four years old!

Everyone wants to write a book. Very few people are able to do it.

I have never stopped considering not becoming a writer.

A novel I read when I was about 17 or 18 - 'The World According to Garp,' by John Irving - really made me want to become a writer. The character of Garp is a novelist, and at the time, the whole lifestyle of being a writer was hugely appealing to me.

In high school, I wanted to be an actress. Until I got to college and took some creative writing courses. Then I decided I wanted to become a novelist.

I am old enough to think the word 'journalist' is not all that noble a designation. Journalist - that record keeper, quote taker and processor of press releases - was, in the world of letters I grew up in, a lower-down job. To be a writer - once the ambition of every journalist - was to be the greater truth teller.

I always wanted to write, ever since I was a kid. I started writing at the age of 11. All I wanted to do was finish my education and have my nights free for writing.

O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!

I've wanted to be a writer since I was, like, 10.