Blue Quote by John Hersey

To be a writer is to throw away a great deal, not to be satisfied, to type again, and then again and once more,…

— John Hersey

To be a writer is to connect and to play and to attempt to see clearly and understand. It astounds me regularly that feeling…

— Deb Caletti

Becoming a writer means being creative enough to find the time and the place in your life for writing.

— Heather Sellers

“Being a writer means expressing with passion your imagination, nightmares, dreams, experiences and reality through words on paper. You are a successful writer when…

— Sonnia Kemmer

To read and to write. Some writers have to be told to write. They think their job is to meet agents and have experiences…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend to romanticize it, that somehow your work appears by…

— Wendelin Van Draanen

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

— Sloane Crosley

Being a writer is part of a noble tradition, as is being a musician – the last egalitarian and open associations. No matter what…

— Anne Lamott

There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say…

— Quentin Crisp

The secret of becoming a writer is to write, write and keep on writing.

— Ken MacLeod

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

— Paul Theroux

There's only one good reason to be a writer-we can't help it! We'd all like to be rich, famous and successful, but if those…

— Anonymous