Books Quote by Hanya Yanagihara

I know writers for whom the act of writing is a necessary chore. They suffer to write great work. I am very lucky that…

— Denise Duhamel

Being a writer is great because you get to come up with stuff.

— Courtney A. Kemp

To be a writer is to connect and to play and to attempt to see clearly and understand. It astounds me regularly that feeling…

— Deb Caletti

You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything…

— Junot Diaz

Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.

— Anonymous

I think writing is such a great talent, and if I was better, I would love to be a writer.

— Shiloh Fernandez

When you decide 'to be a writer,' you don't have the faintest idea of what the work is like. When you begin, you write…

— Philip Roth

Becoming a writer means being creative enough to find the time and the place in your life for writing.

— Heather Sellers

Some people think that writers are innately solitary and that there's a kind of romance to that solitariness. I tend to think that what…

— Richard Ford

Everyone thinks they can be a writer. Most people don't understand what's involved. The real writers persevere. The ones that don't either don't have…

— Peter McWilliams

“You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything…

— Junot Diaz

It's easy, after all, not to be a writer. Most people aren't writers, and very little harm comes to them.

— Julian Barnes