Book Quote by Willa Cather

What a writer brought to a book didn't matter as much as what the reader contributed.

— Lisa Morton

Writing was the soul of everything else ... Wanting to be a writer was wanting to be a person.

— Patricia Hampl

To be alive and to be a ‘writer’ is enough.

— Katherine Mansfield

I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books.

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

I feel like I could devote myself to far more important things than writing novels.

— Sally Rooney

It's certainly true that when I was young, writing seemed to me so important that I would have sacrificed almost anything to it ...…

— Alice Munro

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

I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.

— Haruki Murakami

Writing is more important than being a writer.

— Jesse Andrews

Once I got started, I wanted the life of a writer so fiercely that nothing could stop me. I wanted the intensity, the sense…

— Lynne Sharon Schwartz

Becoming a writer wasn't a choice (there would have been far more worthwhile things to do); it was the best, most fruitful way of…

— Alain de Botton

Books were always important. I have to thank my father, he filled my life with books. He didn't write but he always read. He…

— Rawi Hage