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I never really wanted to be a writer. I know it sounds strange, but I honestly believe that I didn't pick the story; the story has picked me. I've written absolutely no fiction before 'The Immortals of Meluha.' Not even a short story in school - absolutely nothing.

— Amish Tripathi

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I have no desire to write fiction. I did what I did, and it's done. There's more to life than writing and publishing fiction. There is another way entirely, amazed as I am to discover it at this late date.

— Philip Roth

I never wanted to be a writer. I still don't.

— Carolyn Chute

I didn't plan to write YA - I had a story that simply wasn't working as a straight-up fantasy novel.

— Carrie Vaughn

I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.

— Jon Krakauer

I wanted to be a writer, but the idea of writing novels or movies seemed really intimidating. I never got more than a few pages into one.

— Kurt Busiek

Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real career. I thought you had to have some literary pedigree to be a successful author, the son of Hemingway or Fitzgerald.

— James Rollins

Writing happened to me. I didn't decide to start writing or to be a writer. I never wanted to be a writer.

— Robert Gottlieb

I wrote a lot of fiction, but it was just college stuff. It seems to me you have to be so confident in yourself to become a writer.

— Robert Loomis

✗Opposing Perspectives

I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it.

— Thomas Perry

This sounds like a cliche, but I always wanted to write. After college, I did some writing and realized very quickly that it's hard to make a living as a writer. At that point, I was more interested in fiction writing.

— Hooman Majd