Book Quote by Robert Musil

If my mother hadn't been trying to be a writer, I don't know if I would have thought of it myself.

— John Updike

Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer.

— Wallace Stegner

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

I started to write as a child as soon as I could read, or even before, when my mother read me Beatrix Potter at…

— Jane Gardam

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

— Albert Brooks

My first novel was a challenge to myself. No one had an inkling that I was working on it.

— Vikas Swarup

All I am is a writer and a mom.

— Susan Straight

The fact of the matter is that you should really stop concerning yourself with writing a book because anyone can write a book that…

— Ashly Lorenzana

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading.

— Maya Angelou

I didn't want to write a book. They made me do it.

— Grace Slick

My mother wanted me to be a writer, which I have ended up taking a long road round to.

— Mick Foley