Attitude Quote by Andy Daly

I think if I hadn't become a writer I would just have suppressed that part of my personality. I think I would have put…

— Hilary Mantel

I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came…

— Margaret Mahy

I was always writing. I just didn't know if I was any good.

— John Dufresne

I may not have become a good writer, but I managed to make a living out of writing.

— Ruskin Bond

How I became a better writer was that I kept writing.

— Sallie Tisdale

I became a writer because during several of the most important years of my life, writing seemed to me to be the most unreal,…

— William Saroyan

You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at…

— Anonymous

The writing ethic was influenced - when you have to write every day, there's no such thing as writer's block.

— Michael Connelly

Why had I become a writer in the first place? Because I wasn't fit for society; I didn't fit into the system.

— Brian Aldiss

You can't be a good writer without being a good thinker.

— Andy Rooney

The truth is, I hadn't grown up really wanting to be a writer. The whole thing was a weird aberration in some ways, and…

— Alex Garland

When I was younger, I wondered if it was possible to be a good person and a writer.

— Karl Ove Knausgard