Born Quote by John Mortimer

Try to think of writing as a gift - more complexly put: it is the curse and the cure.

— Julianna Baggott

My feeling is that writing is, for me, a pathological condition. That could sound like a mystical experience, and it may be a mystical…

— Alan Garner

I was born a writer. When that happens, you have no choice in the matter.

— Gore Vidal

I was always meant to be a writer. I've felt that way since I was a child.

— Tess Gerritsen

In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.

— Kate Morton

I didn't know I was gonna be a writer when I started out.

— Seymour Hersh

You are either born a writer or you are not.

— Cormac McCarthy

Before I sat down and became a writer, before I began to do it habitually and for my living, there was a decades-long stretch…

— David Rakoff

Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. the illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on.…

— Philip Roth

“Whether or not I am a writer,” I wrote, “I have—and this is both my curse and my virtue—cultivated the instinct of one, an…

— Frederick Exley

I love being a writer so much that I almost can't believe that I am one.

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer.

— Patricia Clarkson