Book Quote by Anonymous

Many people who want to be writers don't really want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a…

— James A. Michener

Those who say they want to be writers, and aren’t writing, don’t.

— Ernest Hemingway

There's only one good reason to be a writer-we can't help it! We'd all like to be rich, famous and successful, but if those…

— Anonymous

- I don't want to be a writer so I can write about my life. I want to be a writer to escape from…

— Candace Bushnell

When one chooses to be a writer, psychologically there's a reason for that because you like the isolation and you like to be by…

— Woody Allen

It's easy, after all, not to be a writer. Most people aren't writers, and very little harm comes to them.

— Julian Barnes

But what's a writer for? The whole point is to put yourself into other lives, other heads-writers have always done that. If you screw…

— Grace Paley

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

When writing isn't going well-then the bad thing about being a writer is that I also have the freedom and flexibility to do something…

— Margaret Haddix

If you're going to be a writer, you're going to write because you have to. It's not like other arts and not nearly as…

— Ian Sansom

...One reason I became a writer was that I figured out that if you call yourself a writer, you can read all you want…

— Katherine Paterson

Being a writer is not the point. Writing is.

— Mohsin Hamid