Want Quote by Gloria Steinem

I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk.

— Gloria Steinem

Those who say they want to be writers, and aren’t writing, don’t.

— Ernest Hemingway

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.

— Gwendolyn Brooks

I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer.

— Patricia Clarkson

One doesn't choose to become a writer. One is just born that way.

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

When one chooses to be a writer, psychologically there's a reason for that because you like the isolation and you like to be by…

— Woody Allen

Many people who want to be writers don't really want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a…

— James A. Michener

- I don't want to be a writer so I can write about my life. I want to be a writer to escape from…

— Candace Bushnell

writers do not choose their subjects; their subjects choose them.

— Erica Jong

And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.

— Russell Banks

A lot of people talk about writing. The secret is to write, not talk.

— Jackie Collins

I never wanted to be a writer; I just had stories I needed to tell.

— Sefi Atta