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I have never stopped considering not becoming a writer. -- Joshua Ferris
One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic. -- Buzz Bissinger
While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism. -- Julianna Baggott
As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning. -- Neil Gaiman
Although I always loved reading and putting words on paper, I never thought about becoming a writer until I was twelve. -- Kimberly Willis Holt
In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time. -- Kate Morton
I'm first and foremost a writer. I followed my personal legend, my childhood dream of becoming a writer, but I can't say why I'm one. -- Paulo Coelho
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. -- Deb Caletti
I came from two harsh dictatorships, Nazi and Stalinist. I never thought of becoming a writer as such, yet in a lucid moment, I recognised what I had to do. -- Imre Kertesz
When I was really young, I wanted to grow up and be the sun. Which shows an early penchant for ambition or narcissism or grandiosity or delusion - all of which are bellwethers for becoming a writer. -- Gayle Forman
I think my grandmother Woodrell was most responsible for my becoming a writer. She wasn't quite literate, but was very proud that she attended school as far as the third grade. She worked as a maid, housekeeper and cook. -- Daniel Woodrell
I feel like a very lucky person. From the time I was young, I had a dream of becoming a writer. Now that dream has come true, and I am able to make my living doing something I really love. -- Bruce Coville
I didn't go to law school to become a lawyer, per se - let's just say I was leaning in to some strong suggestions from my parents - but my nebulous goals of someday becoming a writer were just that, nebulous. -- Rachel Sklar
The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer. -- Harlan Ellison
The secret of becoming a writer is to write, write and keep on writing. -- Ken MacLeod
Perhaps I wasn't going crazy after all. Perhaps I was just becoming a writer. -- Janette Rallison
Really, becoming a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice. -- Shannon Hale
One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic. -- Buzz Bissinger
I dreamed of becoming a writer. And . . . this dream is about to become a reality with the publication of my first, and hopefully not my last, children's book . . . -- Gloria Estefan
Reading usually precedes writing. And the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer. -- Susan Sontag
The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money. -- Moliere
One of the more interesting things I've learnt since becoming a writer is that if you like the book, you'll generally like the person. It doesn't always work in reverse - there are huge numbers of lovely people out there writing not very good books. -- Meg Rosoff
There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings. -- Quentin Crisp
Like most people, I was not able to start selling my stories right away. So I had many other jobs along the way to becoming a writer, including toy maker, gravedigger, cookware salesman, and assembly line worker. Eventually, I became an elementary teacher and worked with second and fourth graders. -- Bruce Coville
Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer. -- Jessica Hagedorn
One of the best things that happened for me as a playwright is becoming a comic-book writer. -- Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
If you're well-known, you're at the risk of becoming your own character. When you're alone, as a writer, you have to be unknown, putting it all on the paper. -- Antonio Munoz Molina
He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was such a pleasure and I thought we must find another writer. -- Simon Callow
I had a blog where I tried to be transparent while giving away nothing. I tweeted and Facebooked badly. As a writer, your 'voice' is your calling card, yet my voice was becoming indistinguishable from billions of other voices. -- Ellen Potter
Becoming a writer is not a 'career decision' like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don't choose it so much as get chosen, and once you accept the fact that you're not fit for anything else, you have to be prepared to walk a long, hard road for the rest of your days. -- Paul Auster
I had a fear of becoming anything, a fear of becoming a specialist. I might have become a doctor, but if you become a doctor, that's your specialty in life and you are defined by it. One of the attractions of being a writer is that you're never a specialist. Your field is entirely open; your field is the entire human condition. -- Graham Swift
Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. -- Anne Lamott
I've thought of becoming a photographer! To save my talent as a writer. -- August Strindberg
Becoming a writer means being creative enough to find the time and the place in your life for writing. -- Heather Sellers
Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be? -- Anne Lamott
The idea of being productive, the idea of producing many books is going to lead you toward you becoming a better and better writer. -- Walter Mosley
My childhood was spent in my local library in a San Diego suburb. It's where I became a writer - by 1st becoming a reader! -- Tess Gerritsen
That sort of reception - where everything is assimilated to the world of celebrity - makes me dream of becoming a more recalcitrant, harder to assimilate writer. -- Susan Sontag
The public figure of the writer, the writer-character, the 'personality-cult' of the author, are all becoming for me more and more intolerable in others, and consequently in myself. -- Italo Calvino
With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the world's first writer of self-contained ready-made quotations. -- Ashleigh Brilliant

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