Books Quote by Anatoli Rybakov

“Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted and slightly savage if…

— Jessamyn West

“The problem with being a writer is that it’s not enough to be a writer; one must also be seen to be a writer.”

— Paul Marlowe

“Being a good writer meant he could make a living and do as he chose. Being a great one would bring responsibilities and expectations…

— Nora Roberts

“...a writer has the duty to be good, not lousy; true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend…

— E. B. White

“He who would be a writer, fine, Must take a deal of pains, Must criticize his every line, And mix his ink with brains.”

— Platt Rogers Spencer

“He had started out the way nearly all writers do, and I'd seen it a hundred times--amateurs transformed into gibbering wrecks by actually being…

— Colin Bateman

“Being a writer is a more difficult job than people imagine.”

— Sara Sheridan

“Anyone who writes can be called a writer because they write.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Writing is physical work. It’s sweaty work. You can’t just will yourself to become a good writer. You really have to work at it.”

— Will Haygood

“Being a writer is a peculiar sort of a job," Neil Gaiman once observed. "It's always you versus a blank sheet of paper —…

— Jim Denney

“She was trying to write a novel, it was so slow, you had to destroy so much and start again; so hard to discover…

— John Fowles

“As most real writers do, he wrote because he had something to say, not because of any specific ambition to be a writer.”

— James Hilton