Being Quote by Chris Abani

The great thing about being a writer is that you have a long, perhaps frighteningly long time in which to do your work.

— Julia Leigh

That's the advantage of being a writer: No matter what happens, as long as you survive it, it goes into the work.

— Alexandra Fuller

When writing isn't going well-then the bad thing about being a writer is that I also have the freedom and flexibility to do something…

— Margaret Haddix

Being a writer is great because you get to come up with stuff.

— Courtney A. Kemp

There are very few professions in which people just sit down and think hard for five or six hours a day all by themselves.…

— Tobias Wolff

...One reason I became a writer was that I figured out that if you call yourself a writer, you can read all you want…

— Katherine Paterson

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to…

— Amy Tan

Writing is a noble privilege compared with the lot of most people, who live like parts of a machine, who live only to keep…

— Blaise Cendrars

Nobody ever got started on a career as a writer by exercising good judgment, and no one ever will, either, so the sooner you…

— George V. Higgins

The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that…

— John Irving

I don't know if I am a good, average, or bad writer, but I write fast. Everything I observe, my experiences and imagination come…

— Dhanush

I realize I'm blessed to have the luxury of being a full-time writer. Not many people have that.

— Rupi Kaur