Want Quote by Paul Theroux

You have to live a life to become a writer.

— Joel Surnow

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

— J. B. Priestley

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

— Dorothy Day

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

— Nicholas Sparks

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

— Doris Lessing

I don't know if I want to be a writer.

— Uzodinma Iweala

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

— Susanna Kaysen

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

— Karen Robards

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.

— Margaret Atwood

No wonder you want to be a writer. How can you not, with all that behind you? You practically are a novel already.

— Sylvia Brownrigg

You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else.

— Grace Paley

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

— Albert Brooks