Karen Allen Quotes

I feel, as an artist, it's important for me to write, and that's a big part of what my journey is - being able to write my stories and talk about stuff.

I've always wanted to be a writer, and I've kept journals since I was eight years old.

I never thought I would grow up writing a book.

When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer.

I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life.

I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.

I did a minor in creative writing in college, but I didn't start writing until I stayed at home with my own children.

I didn't know I was gonna be a writer when I started out.

Anything that feels like good characters, I am excited to do whether I write it or not. But if I don't find it in the world, I will write it myself.

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 knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.

It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing.

I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head.

I'm a compulsive storyteller, an avid reader, and have always nurtured the secret goal of spending my life as a writer.

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

You write about what you know, and you write about what you want to know.

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

Writing, for all that it's harder than nursing ever was, is also more joyous and more fun and a lot less dangerous. And the major themes of my life have become the major themes of my writing, too - so it has all worked out pretty well.

I think everyone should sit down and write a book. It's a lot like therapy but a lot less expensive.

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.

I want to write more, because I think I've got a story to tell.

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

Jigsaw Lady is the working title of a science fiction novel I've had in my head for darn near 15 years. I think I'll start work on it next year (in all my spare time) but I'd like to get it finished some day.

I never thought of myself as a writer.

Even though I don't write about things that come from my life because I'm lucky, and I live in a great place with great kids and, you know, a great husband, I think you can find threads of me in the characters, so that's really what being a writer is, probably.