If you do everything in your power to avoid writing and still can't, then you must be a writer. — Fannie Flagg Copy Share Image
There's less skill and more plain hard work to writing than anyone except a writer thinks. — Mabel Seeley Copy Share Image
When you are not writing, you are a writer too. It doesn't leave you. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
If, when you wake up in the morning, you can think of nothing but writing . . . then you are a writer. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter. — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
We don't often talk about the fact that writing is all about rhythm. When you get too up in your head, you… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
The act of writing is either something the writer dreads or actually likes, and I actually like it. Even re-writing's fun. You're… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Where there is writing- there is a writer Where there is planning- there is a planner Where there is a building- there… — Bliss Carman Copy Share Image
If you're writing, you're a writer. If you're talking about it or thinking about it, I'm not so sure. Writing is ninety-eight… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Well, the secret to writing is writing. It's only a secret to people who don't want to hear it. Writing is how… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Writing happened to me. I didn't decide to start writing or to be a writer. I never wanted to be a writer. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
I would say it's not as hard as writing, because when you're a writer, you walk right into the pit all by… — David Seltzer Copy Share Image
The best thing about writing has been the writer's life, the sense of being expressed, the ownership of the day, the entirely… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
I didn't intend to be writing - the writer's life. I was just writing what came to me at the time, but… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
My best experience as a writer was working with Michael Ondaatje. He let me dismantle his novel, reimagine it, and still had… — Anthony Copy Share Image
Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until I paint it, so… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
A book is not only written - after it's finished it starts writing you, the writer. You become its notebook, its sheet… — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
I always dread the process of writing because I'm not a writer. I'm an audible guy, I'm a verbal guy. I love… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
“You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent,… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
Writing sustains me. But wouldn’t it be better to say it sustains this kind of life? Which doesn't mean life is any… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“What are they like, writers, in your mind: it may seem strange, but initially it’s not about writing. A writer is someone… — Christian Bobin Copy Share Image
“A real piece of writing is one in which the writer has tried to enrich not only the book, but also his… — Karl Wiggins Copy Share Image
