Being Quote by Diane Ruggiero

When I hear about some sensational new writer I sort of think, Shut up ... you've got to be around for a long time…

— Martin Amis

Younger writers and smaller writers need to live and get by. They need to be paid. It has to be fair.

— Nicola Roberts

That is how you get to be a writer, incidentally: you feel somehow marginal, somehow slightly off-balance all the time.

— Kurt Vonnegut

When you're a writer you no longer see things with the freshness of the normal person. There are always two figures that work inside…

— Brian Moore

If you're a writer, you're always working.

— Alan Furst

I'm still very blunt: If you want to be a writer, get a day job. The fact that I have actually been able to…

— Dorothy Allison

Why do the lives of writers seem so... train-wrecky?

— Chuck Palahniuk

You know how sometimes you meet writers that are so full of themselves? They feel really proud that they wrote something . But what…

— Sandra Cisneros

It is called working your ass off. The difference is what you are willing to sacrifice. For every writer who wants balance in their…

— Mark Cuban

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

— Rupi Kaur

It really was total heaven to be a writer. As a model or actor you are employed on someone's whim. As a writer, you…

— Sophie Dahl

Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers.

— W. Somerset Maugham