Long Quote by Martin Amis

It's always been hard to call myself a writer. I think a part of me still thinks it's too good to be true.

— Sarah Dessen

That 'writers write' is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I find it is hardly ever true. Writers drink. Writers rant.…

— Renata Adler

The great thing about being a writer is that you have a long, perhaps frighteningly long time in which to do your work.

— Julia Leigh

A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring…

— William Stafford

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

— Doris Lessing

“Sometimes I think they are writers who do not write. That "writers write" is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I…

— Renata Adler

The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself.

— Martin Cruz Smith

...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

There is something to be said when you have great writers, and they write, and they write.

— Jamie Hector

A writer never finds the time to write. A writer makes it. If you don't have the drive, the discipline, and the desire, then…

— Nora Roberts

“Writers are solitaries by vocation and necessity. I sometimes think the test is not so much talent, which is not as rare as people…

— Rebecca Solnit

There's no reason that a writer, if they have some discipline and curiosities and passion, can't be vital for a long, long time.

— Peter Hedges