Contact Quote by Mary McCarthy

Nothing bad can happen to a writer. Everything is material.

— Philip Roth

It's easy, after all, not to be a writer. Most people aren't writers, and very little harm comes to them.

— Julian Barnes

If you are destined to become a writer, you can't help it. If you can help it, you aren't destined to become a writer.…

— Donald Harington

That's the advantage of being a writer: No matter what happens, as long as you survive it, it goes into the work.

— Alexandra Fuller

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

Being a writer is an endless study in human transition and lessons learned or forgotten or misapplied.

— Sloane Crosley

Writing happened to me. I didn't decide to start writing or to be a writer. I never wanted to be a writer.

— Robert Gottlieb

The downside of being a writer is you get plenty of time to overthink your life.

— Donald Miller

Never, ever become a writer. It's a nightmare.

— Alain de Botton

The best thing about being a writer is it gives you readers who understand your deepest feelings and fears.

— Katherine Paterson

A writer's life is so hazardous that anything he does is bad for him. Anything that happens to him is bad: failure's bad, success…

— E. L. Doctorow

It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating ones own creativity - thats a much tougher matter.

— Brian Aldiss