Access Quote by Steven Pressfield

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

I feel like it's a good time to be a writer. I'm terminally optimistic. It seems like the publishing industry is in the middle…

— Brad Listi

Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.

— Sandra Brown

One of the biggest, and possibly the biggest, obstacle to becoming a writer... is learning to live with the fact that the wonderful story…

— Robin McKinley

“So you want to be a writer if it doesn’t come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it. unless it…

— Charles Bukowski

“One of the biggest, and possibly the biggest, obstacle to becoming a writer... is learning to live with the fact that the wonderful story…

— Robin McKinley

I feel like I'm getting better at being a writer.

— Sharon Van Etten

I am not one of those writers that it just flows out of effortlessly. I have to sit and write and rewrite and sometimes…

— Princess Superstar

It's very difficult, I think for most writers, to carve out the time and the kind of imaginative space to do the writing that…

— Emily Barton

My advice for writers is to get a good day job. It takes the pressure off writing if you have a job that pays…

— Abraham Verghese

Many writers are paralyzed by the thought that they are competing with everybody else who is trying to write and presumably doing it better……

— William Zinsser

To have a successful writing career, you must be willing to sacrifice a great deal. The book, the deadline come first before anything else.…

— Virginia Henley