Karen Bender Quotes

I told my parents when I was 12 I'd be a writer.

I always wanted to write fiction. Always. As far back as I can remember it's been integral to my sense of myself - everything else was always a displacement activity.

When I was really young, my ambition wasn't to do science. I didn't really know that I could. It was to write a great novel.

I definitely thought I was going to write books. I wrote a couple of children's books when I was like 11 when I was a child myself!

Every 'Observer' writer wants to be a novelist.

I wish I didn't have ever to sign my long name on the cover of a book, and I wish I could write a story that would seem absolutely true to the child who hears it and to myself.

I was very small, about 3 or 4 I think, and just wanted to be the people on telly telling these wonderful stories. Obviously the idea grew and matured with me but I can't ever remember wanting to do anything else. I've just sort of taken it for granted all my life that that was what I would do.

I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.

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

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

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

Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.

I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.

I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed of escape.

At Marvel, I was lucky enough to work with really talented people, but I always had this nagging thought: 'One day I'll write my own stories.'

To be a writer was always my greatest aim. I remember writing a play about Guy Fawkes when I was 10. I suppose it's significant, at least to me, that my first work should be about a historical figure.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

Writing was something I always as a kid thought would be fabulous and glamorous to be a writer.

I wrote the book in my head when I was 6 years old.

I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.

When I read 'Greenberg,' I had a really strong sense if I could be any kind of writer I wanted to be, I'd be this kind of writer. And I felt like, even in my experiences, what writing I had done, even on a small scale, when it was good, it shared some quality with it.

I was always someone who wanted to write. I was a real shy, bookworm-ish kid, and I think my earliest stuff was fairly dark.

I started writing my own things when I was about 8.

I don't know if I want to be a writer.