Adversity Quote by Shelby Foote

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

I know writers for whom the act of writing is a necessary chore. They suffer to write great work. I am very lucky that…

— Denise Duhamel

That's the advantage of being a writer: No matter what happens, as long as you survive it, it goes into the work.

— Alexandra Fuller

If you like to tell stories and compose sentences, and if you work hard at being good at these things, then you are a…

— Trenton Lee Stewart

Writing is really just a matter of writing a lot, writing consistently and having faith that you'll continue to get better and better. Sometimes,…

— Laura Kasischke

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

— Courtney A. Kemp

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

— Flannery O'Connor

Being a writer is not the point. Writing is.

— Mohsin Hamid

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

Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend to romanticize it, that somehow your work appears by…

— Wendelin Van Draanen

Writing is more important than being a writer.

— Jesse Andrews

You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything…

— Junot Diaz