Benefits Quote by Richard Dormer

The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you…

— Graham Greene

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

— Courtney A. Kemp

To be a writer is to connect and to play and to attempt to see clearly and understand. It astounds me regularly that feeling…

— Deb Caletti

You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough.

— Haruki Murakami

One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and explore. Another…

— Anne Lamott

I think as a writer one of the benefits is that you can put things that you're interested in into your books. I always…

— Sarah Dessen

I really think that reading is just as important as writing when you're trying to be a writer because it's the only apprenticeship we…

— John Green

Writing is incidental to my primary objective, which is spinning a good yarn. I view myself as a storyteller more than a writer. The…

— Ashwin Sanghi

I write in order to find out what I truly know and how I really feel about certain things. Writing requires me to go…

— Leslie Marmon Silko

Sometimes with certain writing, you feel like you've got to be literal, hit it hard on the nose, just to get the point across.…

— Chace Crawford

I enjoy writing but I wouldn't want to do it all the time because generally you are not writing about things you want to…

— Josh Widdicombe

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

— Flannery O'Connor