Becoming Quote by Ken MacLeod

If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write. If you stop, start again. Save everything that you write. If…

— Anne Rice

Write. Remember, people may keep you (or me) from being a published author but no one can stop you from being a writer. All…

— Katherine Neville

When things are going well, you do have the sense that what you’re writing is being fed to you in some way. Auden compared…

— Martin Amis

“Every book contains a secret – even the writer doesn't always know what it is.”

— Carla H. Krueger

“Then, at last, sitting on her stretcher-bed, she took from the very bottom of her pack an old peacock-blue scarf folded around a heavy,…

— Anonymous

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

— Virginia Woolf

“The secret of being a writer: not to expect others to value what you've done as you value it. Not to expect anyone else…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“If you want to write, here's a secret: the writer's struggle is overrated, a con game, a cognitive distortion, a self-fulfilling prophecy, the best…

— Roy Peter Clark

I learned to write by writing. I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it…

— Neil Gaiman

“Write it. Just write it. Write it on receipts in the car while you wait for your kid to finish their piano lessons, scribble…

— Melodie Ramone

“If you wish to be a writer– then write, and don’t allow anyone to tell you that you’re on the ‘wrong’ path. You know…

— M. Kirin

The writer will write in his or her words, but the readers, even when they are not reading you, will take it elsewhere entirely.

— Amitava Kumar