A Quote by Svetlana Alexievich

I've known since I was five that I wanted to be a writer.

Svetlana Alexievich

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Svetlana Alexievich
Belarusian - Journalist
Born: May 31, 1948

I have known I wanted to be a writer since I was seven-years-old. Seriously. In the second grade I wrote a 21-page story and handed it in to my teacher. She told my mother I was going to be a writer. Since then, I always kept a journal and wrote poetry, plays, stories.

Renee Watson

I had to decide if I wanted to be known as a writer or a reader. I chose writer.

Nathan Lowell

Returning to writing fiction after 13 years away from it. Returning to the rootstock of my whole life as a writer. It's what I had wanted to be for my entire life, since I can remember, since my particular time immemorial. It's how I got my start as a writer.

Elizabeth Gilbert

I've always wanted to be a writer ever since I was in kindergarten, so that was ultimately what I wanted to do with my life.

Angela Yee

There's no friend like someone who has known you since you were five.

Anne Stevenson

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

It helps to know from a very early age what you want to do. From the time I was five years old, I wanted to be a writer, even though I couldn't even read. It was mainly because I thought of my father as a writer.

Tom Wolfe

I wanted to be a writer all my life. Since I was 10. And then at a certain point I began to assume I was one, which is rich, I know. I didn't meet a writer until I was nearly an adult, so I had no idea what I'd bet the farm on.

Tim Winton

I, Binyavanga Wainaina, quite honestly swear I have known I am a homosexual since I was five.

Binyavanga Wainaina

I'm not that complicated, Haven. The truth is, I've wanted you ever since I met you in that damned wine cellar. Because I got a bigger charge out of that five minutes than I have with any woman before or since.

Lisa Kleypas

I wanted to be a doctor since I was five.

Debi Thomas

I've wanted to be a writer since I was, like, 10.

Andrew Sean Greer

I've always wanted to be a writer. Ever since I learned to read, I've wanted to share stories with others the way my favorite writers shared their stories with me.