A Quote by Lucy Hawking

I'm not saying it never occurred to me to want to write a masterpiece, but I really doubt I could.

Lucy Hawking

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Lucy Hawking
English - Novelist
Born: November 2, 1970

It never occurred to me when I was young that I could be an author. That would be like saying, "I want to be a movie star" or "I want to be a wizard." I didn't have any concept of what that path would look like. Maybe that's why I didn't publish my first book until I was 38.

Rainbow Rowell

No, I never thought that I would be a writer. I had always been told I could write well, but it never occurred to me that I might make my living that way.

Elizabeth Berg

I definitely thought the first book was going to be a one-off. I never thought I'd even write a book, not ever having aspired to be a writer. It's something that never occurred to me - a bit like it never occurred to me to play guitar when I was young. I just thought it was out of my league.

Viv Albertine

I usually don't write songs by people calling me and saying, 'Write a song about this.' Usually I'm just going with what I want to write, so you never know.

Diane Warren

I was never one of those people who thought, 'What I really want to do is direct.' It never occurred to me.

Joey Lauren Adams

I never really liked my short hair; it never occurred to me that people would want it.

Dorothy Hamill

I always wanted to write when I was a kid; it just never occurred to me that you could have a job that didn't involve any actual work.... I felt it would be fun to have a job like that where you could make stuff up and be irresponsible and get paid for it.

Dave Barry

I'll tell you something, Harpy," he said, his voice almost a whisper now. "It never even occurred to me that we wouldn't make it. And it never occurred to you that we would. You were just waiting for us to go down in flames. I thought we could get through anything.

Kristan Higgins

When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.

Sam Neill

All good writers inspire me as I have never thought I was any good. As far as a writer who made me think I could do it, it was Henry Miller. Not because I thought he was so simple that I reckoned I could pull it off as well, but it was his freedom and guts that really moved me to want to write all the time.

Henry Rollins

People are always coming up to me with my books and saying, 'You write these things I think but I could never say.'

Jennifer Weiner

People are always coming up to me with my books and saying, 'You write these things I think but I could never say,'

Jennifer Weiner

I personally have no doubt that the Exodus occurred. How it occurred, I don't know.

Elie Wiesel

It never occurred to me to write anything that didn't include gay characters in it.

Christopher Rice

My working poor parents told me that I could do better. They taught me that I was as good as anybody else. And it never occurred to them to tell me that I could just rest comfortably and wait for good old Uncle Sugar to feed me, lead me and then bleed me.

Mike Huckabee

It is truly excellent to have someone believe in you and your ability to write. But I think it is just as helpful to have people who don't believe in you, people who mock you, people who doubt you, people who enrage you. Fortunately, there is never a shortage of this type of person in the world ... write for yourself. Write for the story. And write, also, for all of the people who doubt you. Write for all those people who are not brave enough to do this grand and wondrous thing themselves. Let them motivate you.

Kate DiCamillo

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