Attitude Quote by Sol Stein

The only difference between a writer and someone who wants to be a writer is discipline.

— Ayelet Waldman

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

— Thomas Mann

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

— Thomas Mann

Writing is so hard. Why would you be a writer if you weren't really good at it? If you could be anything else, why…

— Fran Lebowitz

Writing is rewriting. A writer must learn to deepen characters, trim writing, intensify scenes. To fall in love with the first draft to the…

— Richard North Patterson

Sometimes I would write while inspired and sometimes I would write through sheer force of will, and in revision the writing that I thought…

— Jesse Michaels

If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.

— Quentin Tarantino

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

I don't really consider myself a writer, but I am writing so I guess I'm a writer.

— Meital Dohan

To be a writer is to throw away a great deal, not to be satisfied, to type again, and then again and once more,…

— John Hersey

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

Writers are what they write, also what they fail to write.

— Diana Trilling