Acknowledgment Quote by Santha Rama Rau

If you really want to be a writer, nobody can stop you -- and if you don't, nobody can help you.

— Alma Alexander

If you want to be a writer, write a little bit every day. Pay attention to the world around you. Stories are hiding, waiting…

— Kate DiCamillo

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

— Harlan Coben

To be a writer you should read, write and talk to people, hear their knowledge, hear their problems. Be a good listener. The rest…

— Jean Craighead George

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or…

— Augusten Burroughs

I have always thought of myself as a writer, only because I need things to direct, and I can't not write the things that…

— David Lowery

If you are destined to become a writer, you can't help it. If you can help it, you aren't destined to become a writer.…

— Donald Harington

“Writing is about allowing yourself to become a vessel of creativity. Writers are avatars of creation. We have tender hearts, and strong emotions. It's…

— Sai Marie Johnson

It's easy, after all, not to be a writer. Most people aren't writers, and very little harm comes to them.

— Julian Barnes

“Dedication. DEDICATION. That is the only way to become a writer. Write every day. Write until your fingers bleed, your eyes bleed, your soul…

— Belle DiMonté

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

— Doris Lessing

It's so easy, as a writer, to get stuck in your own head, to live in the little worlds you create. To forget that…

— Celeste Ng