Dreams Quote by Candace Bushnell

“Why does everyone want to be a writer? It is because every person wants to feel that they have something of value to say.”

— Margie B. Klein

“There is a deeper, more profound reason for this craving for acceptance and glory. Put simply, it's because all writers are fat and/or ugly.…

— Chancery Stone

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

— Doris Lessing

“Sometimes writers like to imagine that the difficulty of becoming a writer resides in convincing others that that is what you are. But really…

— Hanif Kureishi

I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But…

— Garrison Keillor

“no one could ever push you to write or become a writer, except yourself.”

— Desi Puspitasari

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

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

— Ernest Hemingway

“I always wanted to be a writer, and I always wrote something – stories, poetry, articles, newsletters, letters. Most writers can't help themselves! It's…

— Marina Oliver

Mostly, you become a writer not because you want to get rich or famous, but because you have to write; because there is something…

— Gene Weingarten

To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be.

— Ayn Rand

“I met a doctor the other night who told me he had always wanted to be a writer. I nodded. People always tell me…

— Natalie Goldberg