If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and…

If you want to be a serious writer, then you have to write what there is to write about. If you're going to pull…

— Salman Rushdie

If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write. If you stop, start again. Save everything that you write. If…

— Anne Rice

If you want to be a writer, then write. Write every day!

— Samuel Johnson

If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day... You don't go to a well once but daily. You don't…

— Walter Mosley

If you want to be a writer, write a little bit every day. Pay attention to the world around you. Stories are hiding, waiting…

— Kate DiCamillo

If you want to be a writer, you write. Everybody wants to get published. You gotta play your long game.

— Paul Harding

A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write.

— Regina Brett

Editing requires you to be always open, always responding. It is very important, for example, not to allow yourself to want the writer to…

— Robert Gottlieb

- I don't want to be a writer so I can write about my life. I want to be a writer to escape from…

— Candace Bushnell

“Advice? I don’t have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you’re writing, you’re a writer. Write like you’re a goddamn death row inmate…

— Alan Wilson Watts

“I really want to be a writer but I don't know what to write about" "You could write about us”

— Stephen Chbosky

“To be a successful fiction writer you have to write well, write a lot … and let ‘em know you’ve written it! Then rinse…

— Gerard de Marigny

The existence of the writer is to write, and to write is to tell the truth.

— Azar Nafisi

I'm always telling my students go to law school or become a doctor, do something, and then write. First of all you should have…

— Jamaica Kincaid

I want to keep growing as a writer. I find myself doing unexpected projects and sort of challenging my idea of where I am…

— Colson Whitehead