Addict Quote by Jack Kerouac

If you can help it, you aren’t destined to become a writer.

— Donald Harington

You have to live a life to become a writer.

— Joel Surnow

I can't say that I ever actually decided to become a writer. It kind of snuck up on me.

— William Landay

I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But…

— Garrison Keillor

I really didnt intend to become an author, but I just happened to fall into it.

— Vikrant Parsai

In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.

— Kate Morton

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

— Doris Lessing

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

— Alma Alexander

“[when]asked, “What should I do if I want to become a writer?” “Well,” Doris said, with that steely twinkle in her dark eyes, “My…

— Doris Betts

I may not have become a good writer, but I managed to make a living out of writing.

— Ruskin Bond

I never wanted to be a writer initially. It was not my thing, but I was an avid reader.

— Dustin Lance Black

If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!

— Jackie Collins