Answers Quote by V. S. Naipaul

Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would never have…

— Joan Didion

Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know; I've done it myself.

— Gore Vidal

I'd given up everything to be a writer, and if I didn't then go on to do that - to write - then I…

— James Salter

Being a writer but also having been raised the way I was, I tend to turn to books for answers.

— Alexandra Fuller

Everyone who knew me as a child, they say they're not surprised that I became a writer because I wrote all the time. I…

— Jamaica Kincaid

I was a new writer and I was supposed to write all the time, wasn't I? I had not yet discovered that there are…

— Stanley Crawford

...One reason I became a writer was that I figured out that if you call yourself a writer, you can read all you want…

— Katherine Paterson

I'd wanted to be a writer since I was knee-high. Once I knew that books were written by people and didn't just happen, it…

— Jon Spaihts

For several decades, I believed it was necessary to be extraordinary if you wanted to write, and since I wasn't, I gave up my…

— Diane Setterfield

When I was growing up, I had no idea that I could possibly become a writer. I wrote endlessly in journals - a practice…

— Dani Shapiro

Every kind of book I've written has been written in a different way. There has not been any set time for writing, any set…

— Irvine Welsh

I may not have become a good writer, but I managed to make a living out of writing.

— Ruskin Bond