Courses Quote by Larry Wilmore

Becoming a writer is not a 'career decision' like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don't choose it so much as get chosen,…

— Paul Auster

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in…

— Stephen King

You have to live a life to become a writer.

— Joel Surnow

Those who say they want to be writers, and aren’t writing, don’t.

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Doris Lessing

I had many different careers early on. I knew I wanted to be a writer. But, like so many people, I didn't know how…

— David Grann

“Why does everyone want to be a writer? It is because every person wants to feel that they have something of value to say.”

— Margie B. Klein

Mostly, you become a writer not because you want to get rich or famous, but because you have to write; because there is something…

— Gene Weingarten

If you think about becoming a writer, that's just really one of the big dreams I had. It's really important to have those dreams…

— Deb Caletti

I do find that people are incredibly naive about what it is to be a writer. Like you would pay an incredible amount of…

— Faith Adiele

One of the wonderful things about being a writer is that you're constantly dredging up some arcane knowledge or long-forgotten experience, rediscovering old passions…

— Christina Baker Kline

Once I began college, I was committed to writing, which I think is different from saying I wanted to become a writer. I knew…

— Dinaw Mengestu