Age Quote by Rebecca Solnit

I was never born to write. I was taught to write. And I am still being taught to write.

— Atul Gawande

You were born with the seeds of your talent, the ability to observe the world around you and weave piece of it into a…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

I am not a born writer, but I was born a writer.

— Enid Bagnold

I was born a writer. When that happens, you have no choice in the matter.

— Gore Vidal

You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking about how writers have created their characters and invented their stories. If you…

— Jean M. Auel

Though not all reading children grow up to be writers, I take it that most creative writers must in their day have been reading…

— Elizabeth Bowen

I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I wrote when…

— Linda Sue Park

You are either born a writer or you are not.

— Cormac McCarthy

To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.

— Garry Disher

“It is said that you can't write without a reader. The opposite holds true as well; you can't read without a writer. But if…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“Writers write because they're writers. Because their imaginations boil up inside of them, waiting to overflow into the written word. Ordinary people have little…

— Brian A. McBride

I'm not a born writer, and I don't enjoy writing.

— Alistair Maclean