About Quote by John Patrick Shanley

You can't be a writer and have nothing to write about. You have to have life experiences.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

You have to live a life to become a writer.

— Joel Surnow

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

— Doris Lessing

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

Really, in the end, the only thing that can make you a writer is the person that you are, the intensity of your feeling,…

— Santha Rama Rau

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or…

— Augusten Burroughs

One has to live a life that creates a writer.

— Erno Paasilinna

But what's a writer for? The whole point is to put yourself into other lives, other heads-writers have always done that. If you screw…

— Grace Paley

So many writers live their whole lives in rooms. You can be too civilised in the environment you have around you, too oriented towards…

— Lawrence Osborne

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

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

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

— Julian Barnes