Game Quote by Kameron Hurley

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

“I met a doctor the other night who told me he had always wanted to be a writer. I nodded. People always tell me…

— Natalie Goldberg

I will never stop writing. People often ask when I will retire, but I say it's none of their business. Writing defines who I…

— Barbara Taylor Bradford

Unlike a typical professional, I can't quit my job to become a full-time author; I don't have that luxury. For me, writing is therapy;…

— Ashwin Sanghi

If you want to be a writer, you write. Everybody wants to get published. You gotta play your long game.

— Paul Harding

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

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

— Sloane Crosley

Writing is a solitary business. It takes over your life. In some sense, a writer has no life of his own. Even when he’s…

— Paul Auster

I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.

— Avi

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

To be a writer is to sit down at one's desk in the chill portion of every day, and to write; not waiting for…

— John Hersey

“Being a writer all boils down to this: It's you, in a chair, staring at a page. And you're either going to stay in…

— Alessandra Torre