Books Quote by Kirby Wright

Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.

— J. B. Priestley

If you don't believe what I'm telling you, then ask yourself this: would any decent, kind-hearted individual become a writer? Of course not.

— Brandon Sanderson

You can't want to be a writer. You have to be one.

— Paul Theroux

You have to live a life to become a writer.

— Joel Surnow

Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write.

— Robert Penn Warren

If you wish to be a writer, write.

— Epictetus

Everyone thinks they can be a writer. Most people don't understand what's involved. The real writers persevere. The ones that don't either don't have…

— Peter McWilliams

One has to live a life that creates a writer.

— Erno Paasilinna

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

— Doris Lessing

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

— Paul Harding

I'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more.

— Michael Morpurgo

You have to have a somewhat cold heart to be a writer.

— Susanna Kaysen