Thinking Quote by Robert Cormier

The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.

— Leo Rosten

When I was younger, the main struggle was to be a 'good writer.' Now I more or less take my writing abilities for granted,…

— Jonathan Franzen

My main strength as a young writer was that I had no fear of making mistakes. I knew I would and I knew I…

— Nikki Giovanni

I may not have become a good writer, but I managed to make a living out of writing.

— Ruskin Bond

I became a writer in spite of my environments.

— Robert E. Howard

When writing isn't going well-then the bad thing about being a writer is that I also have the freedom and flexibility to do something…

— Margaret Haddix

Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.

— Iris Johansen

By college, I had a really grand, preposterous vision of myself as becoming a writer, but I don't think I had the discipline or…

— Nguyen Viet Thang

My experience is, the writer I was when I began was only a fraction of what I feel capable of doing now. Don't stand…

— Anthony McCarten

My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which…

— Laurence Housman

I got so discouraged, I almost stopped writing. It was my 12-year-old son who changed my mind when he said to me, "Mother, you've…

— Madeleine L'Engle

I always was a writer, but then I wanted to do stand-up because I thought that was a way that I could perform what…

— Roseanne Barr