Because Quote by Jennifer Armintrout

...One reason I became a writer was that I figured out that if you call yourself a writer, you can read all you want…

— Katherine Paterson

I, myself, write to change my life, to make it come out the way I want it to. But other people write for other…

— Patricia MacLachlan

Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

— Thomas Berger

So much of writing is fed by vanity and the feeling that what you are doing is the most important thing in the world…

— Pankaj Mishra

If you can still write in spite of the fact that you're not getting paid, that nobody cares about what you're writing, that nobody…

— Joanne Harris

Being a writer, writing for a living, is one long persistence game. Everyone wants you to quit. Quite often, you want to quit. You…

— Kameron Hurley

On the other hand, I mean, that is what writers have always been supposed to do, was to rely on their own devices and…

— Donna Tartt

When I write, I tend to be quite cut off from the world. At that point of time, I'm not thinking about editors, publishers…

— Amish Tripathi

That's the advantage of being a writer: No matter what happens, as long as you survive it, it goes into the work.

— Alexandra Fuller

So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an idiot to…

— Lee Child