Become Quote by Navya Nair

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

— Nicholas Sparks

You can't want to be a writer. You have to be one.

— Paul Theroux

Those who say they would write a book if only they had time will never become authors.

— Catherine Cookson

You have to have a somewhat cold heart to be a writer.

— Susanna Kaysen

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

— J. B. Priestley

I've found that writers who don't read really can't write.

— Sylvia Day

I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing.

— Ann Patchett

Publishing a book is a very different thing than writing one.

— Tara Westover

Many, many people can write books. I just happen to be one of them.

— Michael Ian Black

If somebody says that they want to write a book but do not know what to write about, they will never write a book.

— Ravi Subramanian

You have to live a life to become a writer.

— Joel Surnow

I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word. To be a writer…

— Khaled Hosseini