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I didn't originally intend on writing a book. I started writing during the day to feel like I was accomplishing something creative.

— Rachel Dratch

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Because I'm such a creative person, and I've always got my nose in a book, I suppose it was only a matter of time before non-fiction turned into fiction again. But I never consciously set out to become a writer and I never thought I'd be doing the things I'm doing today.

— Paul Kane

I started writing because I found I could spend more time in my own imagination by doing that than I could by reading.

— Geraldine McCaughrean

I looked back at the years since I'd left college and thought of the list of things I'd have liked to do. I'd always wanted to write a book - not a small undertaking. I never felt I had the time or creative energy to spare in order to write one as well as I wanted.

— Simon Toyne

I knew I wanted to write novels, but I could not finish what I started. The closer I got, the more ways I'd find to screw it up.

— Steven Pressfield

I write every day. I'm always in the process of writing my last book, until the next one.

— Farley Mowat

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 write all the time, whether I feel like it or not. I never get inspired unless I'm already writing.

— Janet Fitch

I always worried that the creative well would dry up. I was sure that if I wrote a book a year, I would eventually run out of ideas. Actually, the opposite has been true for me. The more I write, the more ideas come to me and it gets easier.

— Kelley Armstrong

✗Opposing Perspectives

I was always writing the books that I wanted to write, books that demanded to be written at the time. But, like most writers, you start off feeling your way.

— Val McDermid

Getting a book published made me feel a little bit sad. I felt driven by the need to write a book, rather than the need to write. I needed to figure out what was important to me as a writer.

— Nicole Krauss