Discouraging Quote by Sinclair Lewis

Beginning a novel is always hard. It feels like going nowhere. I always have to write at least 100 pages that go into the…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write.

— Robert Penn Warren

“And let’s debunk one bit of writer myth while we’re here: Doing a seventeenth revision on a project does not make a writer an…

— Holly Lisle

Real writers write because they love to write. They don't write for public acclaim.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Certain governments are suggesting that bloggers and tweeters aren't 'real' writers and, so, don't merit protection. A writer is anyone from a Nobel laureate…

— John Ralston Saul

Anyone who wants to be a writer should, if given the opportunity, hang out with "real writers," that is, poets or writers who are…

— Kirby Wright

I think the press does, too; it's just the few crazies and paparazzi that give them a bad name. Real writers write good things.…

— Debbie Reynolds

“New York was packed with writers, real writers, because there were magazines, real magazines, loads of them. This was back when the Internet was…

— Gillian Flynn

“There's a secret that real writers know that wannabe writers don't, and the secret is this: It's not the writing part that's hard. What's…

— Steven Pressfield

Real writers - serious writers with serious subjects, who earn their living at it - all seem to write in small rooms with that…

— Peter York

As it happened, all three of us turned out to be real writers--a coincidence almost too large to be termed mere coincidence in a…

— Stephen King

Everyone thinks they can be a writer. Most people dont understand whats involved. The real writers persevere. The ones that dont either dont have…

— Peter McWilliams