Better way Quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

You have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

— Doris Lessing

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

— Paul Theroux

The best way to become a writer is to go off and write.

— Ernest Hemingway

Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.

— Sandra Brown

You have to live a life to become a writer.

— Joel Surnow

If you really want to be a writer, nobody can stop you -- and if you don't, nobody can help you.

— Alma Alexander

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

— Karen Robards

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

— J. B. Priestley

Writers quite often starve. And I'm mainly just writing critical prose and poetry, that's a formula for starvation.

— Clive James

One has to live a life that creates a writer.

— Erno Paasilinna

If you wish to be a writer, write.

— Epictetus

If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.

— Albert Brooks