Leading me Quote by Zadie Smith

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

— Zadie Smith

Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Writers aren't exactly people...they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person.

— F Scott Fitzgerald

Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Everyone thinks they can be a writer. Most people don't understand what's involved. The real writers persevere. The ones that don't either don't have…

— Peter McWilliams

Everyone thinks they can be a writer. Most people dont understand whats involved. The real writers persevere. The ones that dont either dont have…

— Peter McWilliams

“Why does everyone want to be a writer? It is because every person wants to feel that they have something of value to say.”

— Margie B. Klein

Those who say they want to be writers, and aren’t writing, don’t.

— Ernest Hemingway

“Not everyone is meant to be a writer," Shyla said. "I do believe, however, that everyone has a story within them to be written.”

— Barbara Casey

And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.

— Russell Banks

“Writing is the voices inside our heads, our minds, the creativity that exists for us to, from nothing, create alternate worlds, manipulate a personality…

— Allie Burke

Many people who want to be writers don't really want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a…

— James A. Michener