Littles Quote by Deborah Levy

I knew very early on I wanted to be a television writer. My teachers told me I was a strong writer and had a…

— Lena Waithe

I think the only way you can become a writer is through honing your voice, creating your own voice.

— Megan McCafferty

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I…

— Frank Ocean

I learned to write by listening to people talk. I still feel that the best of my writing comes from having heard rather than…

— Gayl Jones

When I was younger, the main struggle was to be a 'good writer.' Now I more or less take my writing abilities for granted,…

— Jonathan Franzen

I became a writer because during several of the most important years of my life, writing seemed to me to be the most unreal,…

— William Saroyan

If you want to be a writer, you have to learn to write in other people's voices until you get the chance to write…

— Nahnatchka Khan

The reason I became a writer is because I like sitting in dark rooms by myself, not standing on stage and talking to people.

— Cord Jefferson

The first five years as a writer, I didn't know how to write at all. I couldn't write my way out of a white…

— Richard Meltzer

I don't know about other writers, but for myself, to write I must be relatively quiet - it's very difficult to write with the…

— Ray Charles

I wanted to be a writer and I ended up being a writer.

— Lady Colin Campbell

When I was growing up, I had no idea that I could possibly become a writer. I wrote endlessly in journals - a practice…

— Dani Shapiro