Book Quote by Donald Ray Pollock

I want to do a musical. I want to write a book. I have all these ideas and I can't get away from them.

— Saara Aalto

Keep at it! The one talent that's indispensable to a writer is persistence. You must write the book, else there is no book. It…

— Tom Clancy

Seriously, I don't consider myself a writer. I don't think I have writing talent. But I will continue to do it.

— Charlie Kaufman

I didn't know how to be a writer. But I thought, 'I can do this.'

— Karen Robards

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

— Megan McCafferty

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a writer, but I didn't think it would really be possible.

— Lisa Joy

Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.

— Peter Carey

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

No wonder you want to be a writer. How can you not, with all that behind you? You practically are a novel already.

— Sylvia Brownrigg

I would do a sort of violence to myself if I didn't express myself in the directly creative ways of writing, both words and…

— Stephen Hough

Pay attention to your passions. They are the key to starting and finishing the book you are meant to write. I don't believe in…

— Barbara Kingsolver

You're always hoping you can attract a bigger audience, but at the same time, I'd hate to give up what I write. If I…

— Donald Ray Pollock