Laura Hillenbrand Quotes

I was always meant to be a writer. I've felt that way since I was a child.

I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing.

I was always writing the books that I wanted to write, books that demanded to be written at the time. But, like most writers, you start off feeling your way.

I was one of those kids who always wrote.

I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to get something down on paper.

I'm one of those sad cases who've never wanted to be anything but a writer. I started writing my first novel when I was five years old. I have no idea what it was about, but I do remember spending considerable time trying to get the title right, though this had more to do with crayon colour than scansion.

Once I finished 'Eileen,' I wanted to write more novels. I don't see myself stopping any time soon.

I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, typing little funny magazines and drawing comic strips.

I hope the wonder of what happens to my characters never goes away. That yearning keeps me writing.

I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself.

I have been writing since I was old enough to spell. I have never considered not writing.

All stories I write are compulsive. Anything I've ever written was because I don't have a choice. I write stories because I can't wait to tell it, I can't wait to see how it ends.

I write about what haunts me, and I write the books I myself am dying to read. I love it. I can't think of anything I'd rather do.

Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.

I always wrote from a very young age, literally from the time I learned how to read and write.

Once I started to write, it was like all the lights came on. I was always making up stories in my head. I was a daydreamer. I didn't start as a child, but once I started, I couldn't stop. It was compulsive.

I've been a writer since I was a kid. I've been a writer since I was, you know, dictating stories into a tape deck and trying to get my mom to type them up - when I was really, really little.

I even dream about writing. I'm talking seeing words across the page, whole paragraphs.

I always wanted to write novels, even before I had read a lot of novels or had a very good idea of what they were.

For the last few years, I've enjoyed writing my own stuff since studying creative writing at school, and as I've grown up, I've realised how much I enjoy escaping into a world that I've created myself. So I've kept that up as a hobby.

When I was young, I would write all the time. Novels, plays, and poems. It's like a disease - my life is filled with fantasies, and I have to write them all down.

Writing will remain a passion project.

The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.

I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.

I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.