Ask yourself Quote by Brandon Sanderson

No, I never thought that I would be a writer. I had always been told I could write well, but it never occurred to…

— Elizabeth Berg

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

— J. B. Priestley

You have to live a life to become a writer.

— Joel Surnow

You have to have a somewhat cold heart to be a writer.

— Susanna Kaysen

You can't want to be a writer. You have to be one.

— Paul Theroux

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

— Dorothy Day

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

— Jennifer Weiner

No wonder you want to be a writer. How can you not, with all that behind you? You practically are a novel already.

— Sylvia Brownrigg

There are people who have never studied writing who are capable of being writers. I know this because I am an example. I was…

— Elizabeth Berg

Becoming a writer is not a 'career decision' like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don't choose it so much as get chosen,…

— Paul Auster

You have to believe in yourself before the world has given you any indication that you should believe in yourself as a writer.

— Dani Shapiro

No one put a gun to your head and ordered you to become a writer. One writes out of his own choice and must…

— Stanley Ellin