Margaret Mahy Quotes

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

I always wanted to write, ever since I was a kid. I started writing at the age of 11. All I wanted to do was finish my education and have my nights free for writing.

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

From age 7 on, I wanted to be a writer.

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

As long as I can remember, I wanted to be a writer.

I've wanted to be a writer since I was seven, but I didn't grow up in family where people aspired to live as writers.

I've known since I was five that I wanted to be a writer.

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.

From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world.

I always knew I wanted to be a writer.

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 like the idea of being a working writer, not of saying that it's going to take me 30 years to write my magnum opus.

I was always a keen reader. I jotted down one or two things, but it never occurred to me to think of a job in writing. I thought that writers were like demi-gods. I don't know what I thought.

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

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 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.

When I was 30 or so - by that time I had become an assistant D.A. - I decided I would try to write a novel. To be clear: I did not decide to become a novelist. Honestly, it never crossed my mind that I could actually earn a living as a professional novelist.

I wanted to be a novelist for so long.

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.

If, after five years, I hadn't had anything published, I was just going to forget it and go back to TV full-time until I retired or they put me out to pasture.

When I was about 14 or 15 I decided to become a writer and never for a moment since have I wanted to do anything else.

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

My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.