Writer Want Quotes

“I am a writer and I want to write.”

— Jane Bowles

I like to be read. That's most of what any writer could want.

— Mark Leibovich

As a writer, all you want to do is write for great actors. That's all.

— Amy Sherman-Palladino

Guy Kay is probably my favorite and the writer I most want to emulate.

— David B. Coe

“The only difference between me and a famous writer is that I do not want to be famous.”

— Santosh Kalwar

“Confusion of a Writer - Sometimes I want all limelight to shine on me and sometimes I just want to vanish underneath…

— Nikita Dudani

What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want…

— Aminatta Forna

If you're a writer, you want to get your soul out there, where people can look at it.

— Jeremy Larner

And as a writer now, I want to save Linda's life. Not her body--her life.

— Tim O'Brien

“I write because I am a writer, not because I want to get anything out of it.”

— H Raven Rose

After a while, if you're a writer, you want to start appearing in the bookstores of the place you're living in.

— Elliot Perlman

As a writer, you want to go somewhere else sometimes. You want to vary the terrain that you're exploring.

— Heidi Julavits

As a writer, I never want to have an author's message. I really want to present a situation with it in as…

— Stephen Schwartz

I wanted to be a writer. I still want to be a prose writer. I feel I am more temperamentally suited to…

— Juliana Hatfield

We live in a bureaucratic, atomized world, but the system is still run by human beings. If as a writer, you want…

— Adam Haslett

I want to be a better writer. I want to learn and grow, to know how to tell stories in a different…

— Karin Slaughter

“Writer’s want to write something that’ll live forever. I don’t. What do I care if my writing lives forever if I won’t?…

— Jarod Kintz

Everyone should have a tailor. David Wilkes, the guy who does my stuff, is like, 'Well you're a writer - do you…

— Douglas Coupland

Mostly, you become a writer not because you want to get rich or famous, but because you have to write; because there…

— Gene Weingarten

If you are a writer, or want to be a writer, this is how you spend your days--listening, observing, storing things away,…

— Anne Lamott

“Sometimes I think every man wants to be a writer. They want to invent a world with the perfect imaginary woman, someone…

— Joe Hill

I can write any kind of novel I want, any time, and sell it, but there's not that many people watching it.…

— George Pelecanos

I eventually want to come back to Canada, to disappear, have nobody know me, and just be a writer and do what…

— Evangeline Lilly

I love being a writer because I want to leave something here on earth to make it better, prettier, stronger.

— Cynthia Rylant

I'm not a writer just to be a writer. I want to say something that really needs expressing.

— Allison Pearson

I was a writer before 'Eat, Pray, Love,' and I'll be a writer after it's over. It's what I want to do…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I want to be a writer. I do not want to spend 40 hours a week handling e-mails, formatting covers, finding editors, etc.

— Amanda Hocking

To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be.

— Ayn Rand

I see the author as the person who has written; the writer, the one involved in the process of writing. And they're…

— Edward St Aubyn

I'd really want to - just from my own experience as an artist working with a writer, I'd want to do everything…

— David Finch

I try to impart this when people say they want to be a writer and they want to go into show biz.…

— Larry Wilmore

I'm not a writer because I want to make money. I'm a writer because I'm a very slow thinker, but I do…

— Gregory Maguire