Crafts Quote by Herbert Gold

I've always felt that the cool thing about being a writer is that all you need is paper to do the job.

— Dwayne McDuffie

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

— Julian Barnes

Writing is probably the least glamorous profession there is. This doesn't change when you become an author.

— Rebecca Serle

Writers are people who put pen to paper every day.

— Richard Russo

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

There's less skill and more plain hard work to writing than anyone except a writer thinks.

— Mabel Seeley

Being a writer is not the point. Writing is.

— Mohsin Hamid

Writing is not a great profession as a lot of writers proclaim. I write because this is something I can do. Another thing—very often…

— Ha Jin

Everyone has access to a pen and paper, but to be a great writer is difficult.

— Pamela Yates

I didn't think being a writer was a fancy thing. It was a job like any other job, except apparently you could do it…

— Amy Bloom

Money to a writer is time to write.

— Frank Herbert

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