Effort Quote by Anonymous

If you really want to be a writer, nobody can stop you -- and if you don't, nobody can help you.

— Alma Alexander

Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.

— Dorothy Day

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 can help it, you aren’t destined to become a writer.

— Donald Harington

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

— Doris Lessing

“What I will say is that you have to exercise your writing muscle. Write every day. Get better at it. Read a lot of…

— Melissa de la Cruz

“Dedication. DEDICATION. That is the only way to become a writer. Write every day. Write until your fingers bleed, your eyes bleed, your soul…

— Belle DiMonté

If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.

— Albert Brooks

If you want to be a writer, write a little bit every day. Pay attention to the world around you. Stories are hiding, waiting…

— Kate DiCamillo

If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!

— Jackie Collins

The best way to become a writer is to go off and write.

— Ernest Hemingway

You're not going to be a writer someday. You're a writer today. Discipline yourself to write and take time to enjoy writing. Do it…

— Jack Heffron