Agents Quote by Elizabeth Berg

If you like to tell stories and compose sentences, and if you work hard at being good at these things, then you are a…

— Trenton Lee Stewart

I've had a few jobs, but if you want to be a writer, you're better off getting a job that doesn't require that you…

— John Cooper Clarke

You can't be a writer if you don't write, it's just that simple.

— Nicholas Sparks

I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that I would…

— Jenny Agutter

To be a writer you have to write -- and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you.

— Michelle Richmond

I've lost track of the number of people who want to be writers but never actually write anything. Talking about writing, dreaming about writing,…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

I am living with my limitations and have no intention of becoming a writer.

— Pernell Roberts

You can't want to be a writer. You have to be one.

— Paul Theroux

Really, in the end, the only thing that can make you a writer is the person that you are, the intensity of your feeling,…

— Santha Rama Rau

Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.

— Dorothy Day

I've been a writer my whole life. I've just never pursued a career in it since I graduated college.

— Scheana Shay

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