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I was always a keen reader. I jotted down one or two things, but it never occurred to me to think of a job in writing. I thought that writers were like demi-gods. I don't know what I thought.

— Penny Jordan

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.

— Nora Roberts

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

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

— Jon Krakauer

I've never thought of myself as a writer. I still don't, despite all the writing I've done.

— Rhys Darby

I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.

— Len Wein

I always loved writing, but never considered that I could do it professionally.

— James L. Brooks

✗Opposing Perspectives

I didn't think being a writer was a fancy thing. It was a job like any other job, except apparently you could do it at home.

— Amy Bloom

Writing is writing to me. I'm incapable of saying no to any writing job, so I've done everything - historical fiction, myths, fairy tales, anything that anybody expresses any interest in me writing, I'll write. It's the same reason I used to read as a child: I like going somewhere else and being someone else.

— Geraldine McCaughrean

I'd always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in the world.

— Donald Ray Pollock