Amy Quote by Chad Harbach

Everyone thinks they can be a writer. Most people don't understand what's involved. The real writers persevere. The ones that don't either don't have…

— Peter McWilliams

Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.

— Fay Weldon

I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one,…

— Judy Blume

Everyone thinks they can be a writer. Most people dont understand whats involved. The real writers persevere. The ones that dont either dont have…

— Peter McWilliams

Writers are stewards of the culture. Publishers, librarians, bookstore owners. We're all in this together. To write books that are gripping, important, that people…

— Scott Spencer

I think it's quite difficult to understand what kind of life a writer leads. They might be millionaires, or they might be starving people.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

Writing fiction is a resolutely solitary pastime, and I love being with people, so the public side of being an author is, to me,…

— Julia Glass

Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy…

— Walter Benjamin

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

I do a lot of teaching... and so I think I know how hard it is for young writers, how they have to work…

— Erica Jong

No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you will inevitably and helplessly…

— Cynthia Ozick

You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written by people much like themselves. They…

— Cornelia Funke