Will Self Quotes

I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager.

I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did.

I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face.

I never wanted to be anything but a writer, and I never let go of it.

I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do.

Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.

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

I've always wanted to be a writer ever since I was in kindergarten, so that was ultimately what I wanted to do with my life.

I was always interested in writing from an early age, but it seemed so far away and inconceivable, like wanting to be an astronaut or a pop star.

I've always wanted to be a writer. Ever since I learned to read, I've wanted to share stories with others the way my favorite writers shared their stories with me.

I had a vision of myself as a novelist because that was where I could be serious. I couldn't with music.

I didn't do any writing seriously until I was in my mid-twenties. But I've never really thought of myself as doing anything else. I've always wanted to write.

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

Well, I always wanted to write from the time I was very little, and my mother encouraged me. She wrote a journal from the time she was 15 up until about the age of 76.

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

The best ideas are those that really affect me emotionally - those are the ones you never forget. You think to yourself, 'I want to write that book', for years; those are the ideas that I love to work with, and 'The Bone Garden' was one of them.

I set out to write a screenplay but, since my early 20s, had dreamed of writing a novel.

For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write.

As a youngster, I think I said I wanted to be a journalist, but that's a disguise for being a writer.

I always had a passion to write as a young girl.

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.

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

I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid.

There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.

I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody.