Bruce Coville Quotes

I cannot recall any moment of clarity about becoming a writer. I always liked to read. That's what did it.

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

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 always knew I wanted to be a writer.

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

I've been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

My theory is that I decided to be a writer when I was about seven, but of course it is not as simple as that. Like most writers, I had to work at other things to earn a living and wrote mainly in the evenings, often very late at night, for many years.

It's hard to say when my interest in writing began, or how. My mother read to my sister and me every night, and we always loved playing make-believe games. I had a well-primed imagination. I didn't start thinking about writing as a serious pursuit, a career I could have, until after college.

I'm still learning my craft, and I've been writing since I was nine.

I never wanted to be a writer initially. It was not my thing, but I was an avid reader.

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 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 love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I would love that most.

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

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've been writing stories since I was 12. 'Writer's Digest' was one of my writing teachers, actually.

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

I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.

I never intended to become a writer.

So, I guess motherhood and the threat of not being able to pay my rent inspired me to be a novelist. But as far as what inspired me to be a writer, it's the stories. It sounds very cliched, but the stories rise up and demand to be told. They always have done, long before I became a writer.

My intent was to gain experience for fiction I eventually hoped to write. But there's no question I was drawn in by the hope that journalism would be a creative, thrilling environment.

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.

Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.