Difficult Quote by John Densmore

I'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more.

— Michael Morpurgo

Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.

— Dorothy Day

I've just always written, and always considered myself a writer. I wrote my first story when I was five. There was nothing else I…

— Jami Attenberg

It's easy, after all, not to be a writer. Most people aren't writers, and very little harm comes to them.

— Julian Barnes

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

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

— Paul Theroux

Being a writer is an endless study in human transition and lessons learned or forgotten or misapplied.

— Sloane Crosley

I've always wanted to be a writer. I've been writing since I was probably four years old - it was nonsense, but it was…

— Roxane Gay

I've been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.

— Lana Del Rey

Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.

— Carly Fiorina

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

— Doris Lessing

If you want to be a writer, write a little bit every day. Pay attention to the world around you. Stories are hiding, waiting…

— Kate DiCamillo