Books Quote by Elizabeth Berg

I only write about what I do, what happens to me.

— Brownie McGhee

I like to be happy when I'm writing. If not, then how will the reader manage?

— Kevin Barry

As I'm writing it, I'm kind of curious to see what's going to happen. It almost feels like I'm the writer and I'm the…

— Jazmine Sullivan

I am not a writer except when I write.

— Juan Carlos Onetti

I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.

— Avi

Whatever is going on in your life when you're writing has to somehow seep into your work.

— Kate Bush

I'm not a writer. I like being a reader.

— Brian Reynolds Myers

That's the advantage of being a writer: No matter what happens, as long as you survive it, it goes into the work.

— Alexandra Fuller

Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen)…

— Neil Gaiman

...One reason I became a writer was that I figured out that if you call yourself a writer, you can read all you want…

— Katherine Paterson

Readers don't work for writers. They work for themselves.

— Mohsin Hamid

I am a very personal writer. I write direct to the reader. I don't hold back.

— Ruskin Bond