Writing Destiny Quotes

One doesn't choose to become a writer. One is just born that way.

I never really wanted to be a writer. I know it sounds strange, but I honestly believe that I didn't pick the story; the story has picked me. I've written absolutely no fiction before 'The Immortals of Meluha.' Not even a short story in school - absolutely nothing.

Writing may or may not be your salvation; it might or might not be your destiny. But that does not matter. What matters right now are the words, one after another. Find the next word. Write it down.

I've learned to accept that I'm a children's writer, even if it's not what I set out to become. It's what I should have been all along, and I'll stay in this role as long as I'm a writer.

What you write chooses you.

I didn't intend to be a novelist. I didn't intend to be anything. I thought I'd be a journalist.

I considered calmly that I was born to write.

I've always been able to write. I've always been able to put a good essay in or say whatever I wanted to say through the pen. That was a gift of mine. I feel like it was what I was meant to do.

If you do everything in your power to avoid writing and still can't, then you must be a writer.

What we are is what we were always meant to be, and that's writers.

I think if you feel like you were born to write, then you probably were.

With due apologies to Shakespeare, some people are born writers, some people achieve it after a lot of hard work, some people have a writing career thrust upon them. I am in that last group.

I never conceived of not writing a novel. I believed - oh, God, I believed, it was an article of faith! - I was born to write a novel.

Accident is as much a part of fiction as anything else, symbolic of the grace that, along with will, conspires to put words on the page.

I knew from the age of seven that I was meant to be a writer.

I think writing would have happened to me anyway, somehow. Differently, but it still would have happened.

We don't choose the books we write; they choose us.

There is a myth that writers get to choose their stories. You don't get to choose your story any more than you get to choose your children. You can make the decision to write, but beyond that, at the end of the day, it's going to come out how it's going to come out.

I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.

I just assumed that if you were a girl-child, you were supposed to grow up and write.

I knew early on that I was going to be a writer. I think it's something rather like a curse that you're born with.