Novelist Quote by John Gardner

If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so.

— Andre Gide

“I'm going to write a novel and get it published. I'm going to do it because writing a novel is worthwhile and because I…

— Randy Ingermanson

What a writer wants to do is not what he does.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Some people say 'I want to be a writer,' and some people say, 'I want to write.'

— Robin Hobb

Everything that I write comes when it wants to, out of its own need and it dictates its form. I don't say, "I am…

— Sandra Cisneros

When young people say I want to be a novelist, I'd say, think very carefully about it. There will be very few rewards, you…

— Paul Auster

“I want to write. I've already told my mother: That's what I want to do-write. No answer the first time. Then she asks, Write…

— Marguerite Duras

“If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write.”

— Anne Rice

Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.

— Ernest Hemingway

“I want be a writer”

— Anne Frank

“Who knows why we do it? And when we've done it, nobody wants it. Still we keep doing it. That's what makes a writer…

— Chloe Thurlow

Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote…

— Octavia Butler