Care Quote by Joanne Harris

The first thing a writer has to do is find another source of income. Then, after you have begged, borrowed, stolen or saved up…

— Ellen Gilchrist

When you're a writer, you have to write these stories, even if you don't get paid

— Horton Foote

If you like to tell stories and compose sentences, and if you work hard at being good at these things, then you are a…

— Trenton Lee Stewart

Unlike a typical professional, I can't quit my job to become a full-time author; I don't have that luxury. For me, writing is therapy;…

— Ashwin Sanghi

If you want to be a writer, you write. Everybody wants to get published. You gotta play your long game.

— Paul Harding

I've had a few jobs, but if you want to be a writer, you're better off getting a job that doesn't require that you…

— John Cooper Clarke

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

If you do not seek to publish what you have written, then you are not a writer and you never will be.

— Anonymous

You can't be a writer if you don't write, it's just that simple.

— Nicholas Sparks

If you're going to be a writer, you're going to write because you have to. It's not like other arts and not nearly as…

— Ian Sansom

...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 didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.

— Leonard Cohen