Streets Quote by Toni Cade Bambara

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

You have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

— Doris Lessing

The best way to become a writer is to go off and write.

— Ernest Hemingway

If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!

— Jackie Collins

Write. No amount of self-inflicted misery, altered states, black pullovers or being publicly obnoxious will ever add up to your being a writer. Writers…

— A.L. Kennedy

One has to live a life that creates a writer.

— Erno Paasilinna

If you wish to be a writer, write.

— Epictetus

Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.

— William Faulkner

“If you don’t put 99 percent of yourself into the writing, there will be no publishing career. There’s the writer and there’s the author.…

— Andre Dubus III

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

Write. Remember, people may keep you (or me) from being a published author but no one can stop you from being a writer. All…

— Katherine Neville

Really, in the end, the only thing that can make you a writer is the person that you are, the intensity of your feeling,…

— Santha Rama Rau