Being true Quote by Cheryl Strayed

You're not going to be a writer someday. You're a writer today. Discipline yourself to write and take time to enjoy writing. Do it…

— Jack Heffron

To have a successful writing career, you must be willing to sacrifice a great deal. The book, the deadline come first before anything else.…

— Virginia Henley

“My books have all been very deeply felt. You don’t spend eight years of your life working on a trendy knockoff. In that sense…

— Bret Easton Ellis

You want to be a writer? A writer is someone who writes every day, so start writing. You don't have a job? Get one.…

— Shonda Rhimes

“If you don’t put 99 percent of yourself into the writing, there will be no publishing career. There’s the writer and there’s the author.…

— Andre Dubus III

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

— Doris Lessing

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

“Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end it's about enriching the lives of those…

— Stephen King

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or…

— Augusten Burroughs

If you think about becoming a writer, that's just really one of the big dreams I had. It's really important to have those dreams…

— Deb Caletti

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

You don't make a decision about being a writer. There was a point, aged 21, when it became clear that this is who I…

— Philipp Meyer