Paulo Coelho Quotes

Writing was not a childhood dream of mine. I do not recall longing to write as a student. I wasn't sure how to start.

The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.

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

When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about largely because I liked the way the word 'goat' looked on the page, but I decided then and there that I wanted to be a writer. That desire never changed.

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

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

I was not going to use writing for advertising or journalism. I would tend bar, load trucks, chauffeur - do whatever it took. But from the moment I took my first writing workshop, I was a writer.

I don't think I knew I would be a writer. I wanted to become a writer, and I tried to write.

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

Writers always say, 'I always knew I wanted to be a writer; when I was a three-month-old foetus a pen formed in my hand and I began to scratch my first story on the inside of my mother's womb.' I started later, in my early twenties.

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.

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

I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.

And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.

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

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.

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.

I've wanted to be a writer since I was four years old!

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.

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

I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday.

I always wanted to be a writer, from being a little kid onwards. My dad and my mum both had phases when that was what they did.

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.