Getting Quote by Fannie Hurst

I have a curious background for someone who turns out to be a writer.

— Jerry Spinelli

It's always been hard to call myself a writer. I think a part of me still thinks it's too good to be true.

— Sarah Dessen

I have dipped into Ian McEwan and so on. I tend not to stick with one writer. But I dip in here and there.

— John Gimlette

“A writer doesn't dream of riches and fame, though those things are nice. A true writer longs to leave behind a piece of themselves,…

— CK Webb

Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.

— Yann Martel

No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.

— David Foster Wallace

Sometimes what I'm looking for is the thing that will help renew people's interest in a writer that they may have written off as…

— John D'Agata

Every day one has to earn the name of 'writer' over again, with much wrestling.

— Sylvia Plath

A good writer is one you can read without breaking a sweat.

— Patricia T. O'Conner

“Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's…

— Colette

For everyone I know who is a writer, there was some awkward time in their lives when they had to learn to call themselves…

— James Bernard Frost

One has to live a life that creates a writer.

— Erno Paasilinna