Answers Quote by Joan Didion

To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask…

— V. S. Naipaul

“If writers only wrote about things everybody knew, what the hell would be the point of writing?”

— Haruki Murakami

Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know; I've done it myself.

— Gore Vidal

I never, ever decided that I had to write a novel because, to me, there's no such decision that ought to be made. It's…

— Arundhati Roy

I never thought I'd write, because I'd never written anything in my whole life.

— Linda Ronstadt

I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.

— Rainbow Rowell

I often wonder if I had the complete freedom to not have to write, if I would write. That's the one mystery that I…

— Nick Tosches

I'd wanted to be a writer since I was knee-high. Once I knew that books were written by people and didn't just happen, it…

— Jon Spaihts

Writing a novel is always complicated, it's not like you snap your fingers and go, 'Ah, I know what I'll write'. For me, a…

— Reif Larsen

I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

— Octavia E. Butler

I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I…

— Carl Sandburg

Writing is so hard. Why would you be a writer if you weren't really good at it? If you could be anything else, why…

— Fran Lebowitz