Believe Quote by Katherine Mansfield

I think writers are very anxious.

— Helen Garner

I think I'm a writer, and it's my job. People in other professions are expected to do their jobs all the time. Why shouldn't…

— Richard Greenberg

I think I have grown impatient with just being a writer.

— Alain de Botton

In real life, writers tend to be quite boring, but in our books, we're having exciting adventures all the time.

— Ian Rankin

People on the outside think there's something magical about writing, that you go up in the attic at midnight and cast the bones and…

— Harlan Ellison

...One reason I became a writer was that I figured out that if you call yourself a writer, you can read all you want…

— Katherine Paterson

The part of the process that's exciting to me is feeling like I'm in a place I've never been before, in every way. Without…

— Jennifer Egan

Here's a news flash--writers are selfish people. Truth is, creative types like me are driven by one impulse--to make up a world in which…

— Victoria Laurie

I'm more influenced by my own interests than anyone else's. Writers have to entertain themselves, or they can't entertain anyone else

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened -…

— Helen Garner

As writers, our craft makes us sit alone at a desk and hammer away at our novel. Doing that day in and day out…

— Tomi Adeyemi

If you don't have a burning passion for writing, how can you expect anyone else to be moved by what you write?

— JoAnn Ross