I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.
Goh Chok Tong
The things I wanted to be when I was a kid were an archeologist, because of dinosaur bones; a garbage man, because they got to ride on the side of... →
Nick Tosches
For years, I never really pondered how I came to be a writer from where I came from.
A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.
P. L. Travers
My family didn't like me going on the stage, and they didn't much like my being a writer, either.
And so, when I was a young writer I always worked hard on imagery, and I knew that the roots of imagery were the senses - and that if my readers... →
Adriana Trigiani
It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there.
Anthony Trollope
You can't be too old to be a writer, but you can definitely be too young!
Joanna Trollope
I think one of my better gifts as a writer is empathy.
Jonathan Tropper
The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention.
Barbara W. Tuchman