Becoming Quote by Victoria Coren Mitchell

I know some writers can write on the road, but I'm not one of them.

— George R. R. Martin

I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But…

— Garrison Keillor

Going off the road just leaves me more time to be a writer.

— Janis Ian

I know so many writers who are a hundred times better than me and have longer, greater ideas than mine, but they gave up;…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I think writing is such a great talent, and if I was better, I would love to be a writer.

— Shiloh Fernandez

I know people who've passed every creative writing course under the sun and who are more analytically intelligent and far better-read than I, but…

— Suhayl Saadi

It's easy, after all, not to be a writer. Most people aren't writers, and very little harm comes to them.

— Julian Barnes

Seriously, I don't consider myself a writer. I don't think I have writing talent. But I will continue to do it.

— Charlie Kaufman

In terms of people who want to be writers, I wish more people knew how much work it was.

— Tomi Adeyemi

It is always difficult to get across to people who are not professional writers that a talent to write does not mean a talent…

— Flannery O'Connor

The part of the process that's exciting to me is feeling like I'm in a place I've never been before, in every way. Without…

— Jennifer Egan

I've lost track of the number of people who want to be writers but never actually write anything. Talking about writing, dreaming about writing,…

— Laurell K. Hamilton