Quotes About Career

I had this notion that maybe I wanted to be an actor... I thought it might be a neat career. I thought if I was going to try that, I should shoot for the best, and I auditioned for Julliard.

I wanted to do it my way with my career, and I had this arrogant notion that people weren't just interested in my music but me as a person. That was my bit of arrogance, I guess. That's something I learned from Madonna. I was a fan right from the first time I heard 'Holiday.'

Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.

I remember a conversation with my parents about who the people on the TV were, and learning they were actors and they acted out this story and just thinking that was the most fantastic notion, and that's what I want to do.

The notion of 'building a career' had never been heard or dreamed of when I was young.

I got a lot of notoriety early on. Much of my career I was just trying to prove I was as good as the world thought I was.

I'm going to be the next head coach at Notre Dame.

Some jobs you do because they pay the bills. Other jobs nourish the soul.

I didn't intend to be a novelist. I didn't intend to be anything. I thought I'd be a journalist.

I wasn't taking myself seriously as a novelist, and then it became my day job.

When I was 30 or so - by that time I had become an assistant D.A. - I decided I would try to write a novel. To be clear: I did not decide to become a novelist. Honestly, it never crossed my mind that I could actually earn a living as a professional novelist.

I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist.

I knew I'd always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, 'Well, I'd rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one'.

In high school, I wanted to be an actress. Until I got to college and took some creative writing courses. Then I decided I wanted to become a novelist.

As a young, ambitious novelist, writing for kids never crossed my mind.

I couldn't have been the novelist I was without being the journalist I was.

My whole life, I've wanted to be a novelist.

My dad was very successful as a journalist, so I didn't want to be one. I wanted to be a novelist.

I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I'm enormously happy that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier.

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

I want a career writing these novels that I can be proud of. And then I want one as a screenwriter.

I'd probably still be a financial journalist now if it weren't for writing novels. Mmm. Fun! I'm much happier writing novels!

I started writing juvenile novels around 1985. I never really thought of it as a career, but more as a way to make a living.

I have to credit high school for allowing us to mess around with movie stuff at a time when it was a novelty. Experimenting with that and having a very good group of friends to work with made it a very easy decision that this seemed like something I wanted to do with the rest of my life.