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I would always get a lot of work as a writer, but that wasn't what I wanted to be. For me, I was only doing half of what I really wanted to do - write and direct.

— Jocelyn Moorhouse

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

— Steve Toltz

I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day, I find it terribly easy. And so, rather than trying to hunt up a text, I just wrote one.

— Daniel Pinkwater

I always wanted to be a writer.

— John Searles

I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child.

— Margaret Mahy

I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.

— Hannah Kent

I never considered writing as a career - it was always a creative outlet for me and something I just loved to do.

— Doreen Cronin

I liked the idea of being a writer more than I liked the idea of writing.

— Alexi Zentner

✗Opposing Perspectives

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.

— Octavia Butler

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

— Jill Lepore

I pretty much always wanted to be a writer.

— Jane Goldman