Being Quote by Mohsin Hamid

You can't be a writer if you don't write, it's just that simple.

— Nicholas Sparks

Writing is more important than being a writer.

— Jesse Andrews

Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.

— J. B. Priestley

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

— Julian Barnes

Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.

— William Faulkner

Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.

— Dorothy Day

Being a writer is great because you get to come up with stuff.

— Courtney A. Kemp

Writing is physical work. It's sweaty work. You just can't will yourself to become a good writer. You really have to work at it.

— Wil Haygood

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

— Sloane Crosley

I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

— Flannery O'Connor

If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!

— Jackie Collins

If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.

— Albert Brooks