Born Quote by Lois Duncan

“Everybody is born with a little bit of writer in them. We all come with the desire to work hard to see our creations…

— Brian A. McBride

The triumph of writing fiction is that by doing so, writers can build a more ideal world in themselves.

— Lauren Groff

One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just…

— Terry Pratchett

There are writers, and there are readers who want something more. They want to get at the grist of life.

— Frank Peretti

Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.

— Yann Martel

You were born with the seeds of your talent, the ability to observe the world around you and weave piece of it into a…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

Today, writers want to impress other writers.

— Paulo Coelho

Most of the writers I know work every day, in obscurity and close to poverty, trying to say one thing well and true. Day…

— Timothy Egan

The good stories, of course, write themselves. And somebody wants to know who are the really good writers, and how many of them there…

— R. A. Lafferty

Writers have to get used to launching something beautiful and watching it crash and burn. They also have to learn when to let go…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I think writers are born, not made.

— Elizabeth Berg

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people…

— Orson Scott Card