Book Quote by Tomi Adeyemi

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

— J. B. Priestley

I think I write or publish as much as I do because I can bear being without a book to work on.

— Philip Roth

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

I always grew up with the idea that in order to be a successful writer, I should have a book published.

— Leandra Medine

If you do not seek to publish what you have written, then you are not a writer and you never will be.

— Anonymous

“To be a writer, you must write. To be a published writer you must finish what you write and then get what you've written…

— George H. Scithers

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

— Paul Theroux

If you want to be a writer, you write. Everybody wants to get published. You gotta play your long game.

— Paul Harding

I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write. But at times I have told myself that I don't necessarily have to publish…

— J. K. Rowling

You can't be a writer if you don't write, it's just that simple.

— Nicholas Sparks

Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.

— Carly Fiorina

Publishing a book is a very different thing than writing one.

— Tara Westover