Books Quote by Julia Cameron

If, when you wake up in the morning, you can think of nothing but writing . . . then you are a writer.

— Anonymous

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

— Patricia Clarkson

I think most writers have to have a practice of writing. For me it is very early in the morning. I try to make…

— Dana Spiotta

I'm not a writer that writes every day. I just kind of have ideas. I jot them down when I have them, and when…

— Dee Rees

I've always been a writer. I hope to continue to write books until I can't anymore.

— Megan McCafferty

I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day,…

— Daniel Pinkwater

If you're going to be a writer you should sit down and write in the morning, and keep it up all day, every day.…

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I like to believe that I don't think of myself as a writer. I am an amateur. Back when I was teaching, I wrote…

— Guy Davenport

I was a novelist before I was a TV screenwriter. Actually, as a kid, I think I'd always wanted to be a writer, but…

— Ben Richards

My writing life is pretty simple - I try to work every day, almost always in the mornings - and I can only write…

— Jonathan Lethem

I wanted to be a writer, but the idea of writing novels or movies seemed really intimidating. I never got more than a few…

— Kurt Busiek

At the outset, my notion of being a writer was that you would have moments of inspiration and moments of frustration, when you'd crumple…

— Tom Rachman