Don't be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist. — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
Never believe anything you think about yourself as a writer when you're not writing. — David Milch Copy Share Image
“Oddly, the highly productive writer found writing wearing. “My botherations often won’t let me work,”11 he complained. He” — Jack Lynch Copy Share Image
A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I am married to a writer, and this - writing - is an odd enterprise. It's something we both support very strongly. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The only advice anybody can give is, if you wanna be a writer, keep writing. And read all you can, read everything. — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
Only something extremely dire and disabling will ever stop a real writer from writing. Retirement is never an option. — Warren Adler Copy Share Image
Discipline is what makes a writer. If writing was like lifting weights, then I'd look like Mr. Universe. Write every day. Give… — Tony D'Souza Copy Share Image
I feel a passion for what we're trying to do.I mean, why does somebody who's old who's a writer keep writing? Because… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I wish I could be a better writer, but writing is so difficult. I get seduced by visual aesthetics. Because I just… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
When I was younger, the main struggle was to be a 'good writer.' Now I more or less take my writing abilities… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
I was someone who wanted to be a writer but who wasn't writing. I was someone buying books on writing. I was… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
It’s much better to be a tribal writer, writing for all people and reflecting many voices through us, than to be a… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I've been writing since I was very young, even before I was a teenager. As far as I'm concerned, I am a… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
Reading good books is one distraction that will help you become a better writer. And writing - that's the thing - writing… — Nick Petrie Copy Share Image
I feel like one can have all of that as a writer; you're writing, you're reading, you're talking to interesting and intelligent… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
If you are serious, and you want to make a living as an author, then you need to hustle. Period. If you… — Larry Correia Copy Share Image
There's a lot about being "A Writer" that has nothing to do with writing. That's one thing I've discovered. You've got to… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
If you're going to be a writer you should sit down and write in the morning, and keep it up all day,… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
“The biggest gift a writer could have is to have someone with the writing expertise and experience of John Grisham brought to… — Tony Vanderwarker Copy Share Image
“Hire great writers If you are trying to decide among a few people to fill a position, hire the best writer. It… — Jason Fried Copy Share Image
“The second thing you have to do to be a writer is to keep on writing. Don't listen to people who tell… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
When you're young, your perception of what it means to be a writer is often less about the writing and more about… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
“If you are trying to decide among a few people to fill a position hire the best writer. it doesn't matter if… — Jason Fried Copy Share Image
Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people, but I also explain that… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
“I know I am a writer because until I’m writing I don’t know what I know.” — Wayson Choy Copy Share Image
I'm the kind of writer that, once I get into writing mode in my brain, I'm non-stop. — Natalie Prass Copy Share Image
“One of the single most important things a writer must do, besides writing, is reading ... ... and drinking coffee.” — Linda Ghaderi Copy Share Image
I don't really consider myself a writer, but I am writing so I guess I'm a writer. — Meital Dohan Copy Share Image
I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing. — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
Being a writer now is about so much more than writing. There's publishing, touring, marketing, web presence. — James Frey Copy Share Image
