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When my mother passed... DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK I think most fiction writers naturally start by writing short stories, but some of us don't. Whe... ANDREA BARRETT I was very against pink and purple when I was young, because they were girls' colors. But that w... DANICA PATRICK I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels. J. K. ROWLING I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it... CANDACE BUSHNELL I never wanted to be that fad type of artist. When I looked up to artists, watching TV, I wanted to ... TYGA It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I wa... RITA DOVE I don't have any regrets, really, except that one. I wanted to write about you, about us, really. Do... MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it w... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS So when it was my turn to start developing projects, I knew the writers I wanted to work with, and I... RUPERT SANDERS It must have been when I was 14 or 15 that I started tentatively writing songs and was able to conve... LORDE I've never done anything but what I wanted to do with my life. I don't think too many people... DON MCLEAN I'm a huge David Lindsay-Abaire fan. If I could write, I would want to write like him. TATE DONOVAN In my early twenties, that's when I really began to write. Before that, I was too busy working, ... PAULA FOX I write so that people will read what I write. I don't want to write a book that a thousand peop... ANN HOOD The best piece of advice I ever got from anyone was when Spike Jonze said, 'Take money out of th... SHANE SMITH I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was i... GABY HOFFMANN When I'm focusing on what's important to God, I live differently. I invest my time differently. CRAIG GROESCHEL I wanted to be a doctor, but my mom was like, 'It's really hard and it's going to take 1... CHARICE PEMPENGCO I wanted to write a very simple story about a boy, a wolf, a girl, a bear and a forest, so I thought... MICHELLE PAVER I was always writing the books that I wanted to write, books that demanded to be written at the time... VAL MCDERMID When I first started drumming, when I was 14 or 15, I started writing songs. I wrote for a couple of... PHILIP SELWAY I came to Southbury because I wanted to live a more simple life. When I was a child, I saw lots of m... POLLY BERGEN I made a decision when I started writing 'All is Song' to take the compliments I had for ... SAMANTHA HARVEY When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to... RACHEL BLOOM I had several publishers, and they were all the same. They all wanted salacious. And everybody is wr... ANITA PALLENBERG I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting. ABBY ELLIOTT That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences a... IDINA MENZEL My manager, Norma, was trying to get me to write it for at least 10 years and being the reclusive pe... SPIKE MILLIGAN It takes me a long time to write, and I trust myself, so I write very sparsely, so when I do, I know... EARL SWEATSHIRT I started writing poetry in high school because I wanted desperately to write, but somehow, writing ... L. E. MODESITT, JR. When I first started making music, I didn't really know what I was doing. I just wanted to write... JULIANA HATFIELD When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then ... SCOTT THOMPSON My first real writing job was at 'Rolling Stone,' so I wrote about rock-and-roll and politic... TIM CAHILL When I was in college, I wanted to write for 'Late Night With Conan O'Brien,' and I was ... MIKE BIRBIGLIA I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. J. K. ROWLING With 'Attachments,' my goal was to write a really good romantic comedy. I wanted the reader ... RAINBOW ROWELL When I really want to learn about something, I write a book on it. Then the real research begins, as... JOSEPH CHILTON PEARCE I started running away when I was five years old. It wasn't until I was an adult that I realized... WILLIE AAMES I started out doing theater when I was really young, and I completely fell in love with it. I knew t... TARA LYNNE BARR When I was working on my first novel, 'The Quilter's Apprentice,' I knew I wanted to wri... JENNIFER CHIAVERINI It was a shock to my system leaving 'The West Wing' and going to 'Psych.' I remember... DULE HILL I made a list of things I wanted to do with my life, but it ended up mostly being a list of books I ... ELLIE ROSE MCKEE When I enter that higher-order space that's required to write, I'm a better human. 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