Entire life Quote by Mary Gauthier

I love writing and can't imagine not being able to do it. I want an easy life and if it had been difficult I…

— Iain Banks

I am not one of those writers that it just flows out of effortlessly. I have to sit and write and rewrite and sometimes…

— Princess Superstar

The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right.

— Gene Weingarten

I didn't know how to be a writer. But I thought, 'I can do this.'

— Karen Robards

I can't really write unless I'm full of inspiration. And even then I can't write unless I have some alone time.

— Brett Dennen

Often, the fact that I haven't done something as a writer is all the reason I need to try it.

— Jess Walter

People who want to write either do it or they don't. At last I began to say that my most important talent - or…

— Octavia Butler

Well, I am becoming doddering and old but I have - I'm writing two books a year now. It's like 220,000 words or something…

— John Sandford

It’s always hard. If it was easy, everyone would do it rather than going around telling you their ideas and saying how they could…

— Arthur M. Jolly

I just try and do something good. But as a writer, you're slightly out of control.

— Peter Morgan

I also believe that if you're really a writer, you'll write, and that nobody could stop you.

— Jennifer Weiner

First and foremost, I am a writer. That's what I have spent my life doing.

— Gyles Brandreth