Book Quote by Augusten Burroughs

You know how sometimes you meet writers that are so full of themselves? They feel really proud that they wrote something . But what…

— Sandra Cisneros

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

— Julian Barnes

The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems like real life is…

— George R. R. Martin

Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.

— J. B. Priestley

The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world. Sometimes I'm…

— Chuck Palahniuk

You can't be a writer if you don't write, it's just that simple.

— Nicholas Sparks

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

It's hard work, writing, you know. Honestly, a fight every day against your own limitations. You have to squeeze books out of your brain,…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Being a writer is not the point. Writing is.

— Mohsin Hamid

I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer.

— Patricia Clarkson

I think the path to becoming a writer has become more through the novel. It's easier to get a novel published than a book…

— Jess Walter

I believe - I know (there are not many things I should care to dogmatize about, on the subject of writing) that writers need…

— Nadine Gordimer