Biology Quote by Wallace Stegner

A writer is someone who writes!

— Pat Schneider

Writing, at its heart, is a solitary pursuit, designed to make people depressoids, drug addicts, misanthropes, and antisocial weirdos.

— Mindy Kaling

Being a writer is an endless study in human transition and lessons learned or forgotten or misapplied.

— Sloane Crosley

The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.

— Nadine Gordimer

To be a writer is to throw away a great deal, not to be satisfied, to type again, and then again and once more,…

— John Hersey

Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul.

— Isabel Allende

To be a writer, a creative person, you must retain your ability to react uniquely. Your feelings must remain your own. The day you…

— Dwight V. Swain

A writer is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things.

— William Stafford

Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.

— Jan Karon

To be a writer, open your heart. Keep it open. You can't be a writer with a closed heart.

— Amity Gaige

Writers are what they write, also what they fail to write.

— Diana Trilling

Nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.

— John Irving