Bigs Quote by Scott Berkun

If somebody says that they want to write a book but do not know what to write about, they will never write a book.

— Ravi Subramanian

I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word. To be a writer…

— Khaled Hosseini

You can't be a writer if you don't write, it's just that simple.

— Nicholas Sparks

People think writing is a very distinguished, cerebral thing, where all you do is write. It doesn't work that way. People have to see…

— Ravi Subramanian

I've lost track of the number of people who want to be writers but never actually write anything. Talking about writing, dreaming about writing,…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

The only certainty about writing and trying to be a writer is that it has to be done, not dreamed of or planned and…

— Janet Frame

Writing is a job, a craft, and you learn it by trying to write every day and by facing the page with humility and…

— Stephen Dobyns

If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.

— Hugh Prather

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

— Thomas Berger

Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but I think…

— Harper Lee

The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world. Sometimes I'm…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Many people who want to be writers don't really want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a…

— James A. Michener