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I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.

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

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

I don't think I knew I would be a writer. I wanted to become a writer, and I tried to write.

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.

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

Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was never far from my mind.

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

In college, I think I probably positioned myself as an aspiring writer, meaning I dressed sort of extravagantly and adopted all the semi-Byronic affectations, as if I were writing, although I wasn't actually doing any writing.