Faces Quote by Alexander Chee

You can't want to be a writer. You have to be one.

— Paul Theroux

One of the biggest, and possibly the biggest, obstacle to becoming a writer... is learning to live with the fact that the wonderful story…

— Robin McKinley

To be a writer you have to write -- and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you.

— Michelle Richmond

There are people who have never studied writing who are capable of being writers. I know this because I am an example. I was…

— Elizabeth Berg

Really, in the end, the only thing that can make you a writer is the person that you are, the intensity of your feeling,…

— Santha Rama Rau

If you don't believe in yourself, and you don't have the fortitude to make that dream happen, why should the hotshots in the publishing…

— Jodi Picoult

You have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

— Doris Lessing

It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much tougher matter.

— Brian Aldiss

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.

— Margaret Atwood

A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates…

— Gwendolyn Brooks

Becoming a writer is not a 'career decision' like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don't choose it so much as get chosen,…

— Paul Auster

Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.

— Sandra Brown