A Quote by Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I was nine when I first knew I wanted to be a writer, in particular, a poet.

Shirley Geok-lin Lim

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Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Writer
Born: 1944

I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.

Michael J. Fox

So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.

Nicholson Baker

I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.

Dan Simmons

I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed

Dan Simmons

I knew I wanted to be a writer before I knew that being a writer was possible.

Dani Shapiro

As regards literary culture, it fascinates me that it has been so resilient to the Union. For example, when T.S. Eliot wanted to become poet in these lands, it wasn't as an English poet, it was an Anglian poet he wanted to be.

Ian Mcewan

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

Jill Lepore

The inimitable writer Maxine Hong Kingston published a book in 2002 with the title To Be the Poet. However, in contrast to the transformatory distinctions Kingston makes between the conditions of being a prose writer and "the poet," my multigenre impulses incline me to a broader transformation: to be a writer.

Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I think it was W.H. Auden who said he was lucky that his first favorite poet was Thomas Hardy, who was a good but not a great poet, because if you are exposed to the greats too soon it can just squash you as a writer.

David Duchovny

I knew that I was a good writer in high school and won awards, and I was the editor of my school newspaper. So I knew that I was a good writer and I wanted to somehow capitalize and sort of utilize a talent that I thought I had.