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I never even dreamt of being a writer because I didn't feel allowed. When I was a child I was terribly ambitious, but I didn't know at all what this great thing would become.

— Amelie Nothomb

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.

— Kate Morton

I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.

— Haruki Murakami

I always wanted to be a writer, and I did want to be a novelist. In college I took a couple of classes that taught me I would never be a novelist. I discovered I had no imagination. My short stories were always thinly veiled memoir.

— Anne Fadiman

My dream was, and always had been, to write a book. To be a writer.

— Deb Caletti

It took me a long time to even dare to envision myself as a writer. I was very uncertain and hesitant and afraid to pursue a creative life.

— Jhumpa Lahiri

I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.

— Gail Carson Levine

✗Opposing Perspectives

I was always meant to be a writer. I've felt that way since I was a child.

— Tess Gerritsen

I was one of those kids who never wanted to be anything but a novelist. And I don't know a lot of people who truly live the life that they dreamed of.

— Scott Turow

I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager.

— Paulo Coelho

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.

— Paul Auster