Agents Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

— Thomas Berger

Writing is a way of life. I do it because it's a way of experiencing the world, and trying to come to terms with…

— Emily Perkins

To be a writer is to sit down at one's desk in the chill portion of every day, and to write; not waiting for…

— John Hersey

Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend to romanticize it, that somehow your work appears by…

— Wendelin Van Draanen

Most writers need to write. I write for money, really. If I won the lottery, I would never write another word. I would rather…

— Clarissa Dickson Wright

There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say…

— Quentin Crisp

Some people think that writers are innately solitary and that there's a kind of romance to that solitariness. I tend to think that what…

— Richard Ford

If you're going to be a writer, you're going to write because you have to. It's not like other arts and not nearly as…

— Ian Sansom

To be a writer is to connect and to play and to attempt to see clearly and understand. It astounds me regularly that feeling…

— Deb Caletti

One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and explore. Another…

— Anne Lamott

I know writers for whom the act of writing is a necessary chore. They suffer to write great work. I am very lucky that…

— Denise Duhamel

It's misleading to think of writers as special creatures, word sorcerers who possess some sort of magical knowledge hidden from everyone else. Writers are…

— Ralph Fletcher