Also Quote by Tobias Wolff

There are very few professions in which people just sit down and think hard for five or six hours a day all by themselves.…

— Tobias Wolff

There is freedom in being a writer and writing. It is fulfilling your function. I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want.…

— Natalie

No one put a gun to your head and ordered you to become a writer. One writes out of his own choice and must…

— Stanley Ellin

In America, writers are afforded the freedom to express themselves in unlimited manners. Creative liberty is a privilege.

— Michael Graves

You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else.

— Grace Paley

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

Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.

— J. B. Priestley

You can't want to be a writer. You have to be one.

— Paul Theroux

As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing.

— Dwight Yoakam

I often wonder if I had the complete freedom to not have to write, if I would write. That's the one mystery that I…

— Nick Tosches

Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.

— Dorothy Day

That has to remain the principal reason for doing it, doesn't it? I know it's possible to write for money, and many very good…

— Jonathan Kellerman