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

I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did.

I saw novelists as being admirable people and I thought... I thought... maybe, one day, I could be one of them.

I wanted to be a novelist for so long.

I couldn't have been the novelist I was without being the journalist I was.

I pretty much always wanted to be a writer.

Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of.

If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.

I was always attracted and repelled by the idea of being a writer.

I always just wanted to be a writer, not necessarily a particular kind of writer.