Care Quote by Elif Batuman

Writers don't need love; all they require is money.

— John Osborne

When you decide 'to be a writer,' you don't have the faintest idea of what the work is like. When you begin, you write…

— Philip Roth

If you want to be a writer, you must be in love with the process of writing, whether you achieve financial success or not.

— Cinda Williams Chima

“If you’re dating a writer and they don’t write about you — whether it’s good or bad — then they don’t love you. They…

— Jamie Anne Royce

I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.

— William Saroyan

Writers shouldn't fall in love with their characters so much that they lose sight of what they're trying to accomplish. The idea is to…

— Stephen Coonts

Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it.…

— Ray Bradbury

In love, writing is dangerous, not to mention pointless.

— Alexandre Dumas

It's hard to explain how much one can love writing. If people knew how happy it can make you, we would all be writing…

— Andrea Barrett

Some people think that writers are innately solitary and that there's a kind of romance to that solitariness. I tend to think that what…

— Richard Ford

It's easy, after all, not to be a writer. Most people aren't writers, and very little harm comes to them.

— Julian Barnes

Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much…

— Ernest Hemingway