Always Quote by David Lowery

As a writer, you need a strong sense of self-belief. And when it comes to writing, I've always had that.

— Ronald Frame

You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else.

— Grace Paley

If you want to be a writer, all you need is a piece of paper and a pencil, and I had a manual typewriter.…

— Tama Janowitz

I'm nomadic. Even when I'm a visiting professor here at the City University of Hong Kong, in this campus flat, I'm constantly getting up,…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I've always felt that the cool thing about being a writer is that all you need is paper to do the job.

— Dwayne McDuffie

To be a writer you need to see things as they are, and to see things as they are you need a certain basic…

— Tobias Wolff

No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.

— Irwin Shaw

I've always believed that as an artist, as a writer, you need a lot of contact with other people to make your art good.

— N. K. Jemisin

The hierarchy plays out in the writers room, and you, as a staff writer, need to know your place.

— Tanya Saracho

As a writer, I need an enormous amount of time alone. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box,…

— Paul Rudnick

There are three things you need to be a good writer: you need to read a lot, you need to write a lot, and…

— Clay Shirky

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