Assuming Quote by Ann Beattie

Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.

— Mignon McLaughlin

But it is not at all unthinkable for anyone to tell a writer how to write. It comes with the territory.

— Ernest Lehman

You can't tell a writer they should just be more confident.

— Alice Mattison

Writing provides no guarantees. And writers who stay with writing do it for reasons that are larger than self.

— Jayne Anne Phillips

That's what in theory differentiates a writer from everyone else. You see and hear more clearly.

— Don DeLillo

A writer writes what other people only think.

— Sol Stein

I also believe that if you're really a writer, you'll write, and that nobody could stop you.

— Jennifer Weiner

The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.

— Daniel Alarcon

The true writer must write not the acceptable but the true.

— David Mamet

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

— Anais Nin

Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible.

— Anne Rice

I always thought I was a writer on the inside, but after a few years of not writing, you can't make that claim anymore.

— Amor Towles