Ifs Quote by Fannie Flagg

Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.

— J. B. Priestley

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

— Nicholas Sparks

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

— Paul Theroux

“To be a writer, you must write. To be a published writer you must finish what you write and then get what you've written…

— George H. Scithers

I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

— Flannery O'Connor

Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.

— William Faulkner

If you wish to be a writer, write.

— Epictetus

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

— Karen Robards

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.

— Margaret Atwood

I am not a writer except when I write.

— Juan Carlos Onetti

Being a writer is not the point. Writing is.

— Mohsin Hamid

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

— Dorothy Day