Areas Quote by Brian Hodge

Getting a beginner publishing deal really helped me gain the skills. I just kept writing and writing. You just take everything out of life…

— Jon Pardi

To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer - not just a one-article or a one-story…

— Langston Hughes

Getting your foot in the door with some publishing people can be important when you're starting out as a writer, but it's also not…

— Chad Harbach

To be a writer you should read, write and talk to people, hear their knowledge, hear their problems. Be a good listener. The rest…

— Jean Craighead George

Writing is indeed essential to me. I have been writing for a long time but not for publication. I'm sure there are many, many…

— Zia Haider Rahman

There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say…

— Quentin Crisp

Don't market yourself. Editors and readers don't know what they want until they see it. Scratch what itches. Write what you need to write,…

— Anonymous

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

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

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

It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much tougher matter.

— Brian Aldiss

It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating ones own creativity - thats a much tougher matter.

— Brian Aldiss