Being A Writer Quotes
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I'm not afraid, as a writer, of being emotional. I'm obsessed with human emotion, body parts, physicality.
— Ellie Goulding
The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.
— Stephen Ambrose
A writer illuminates the lights of her heart so that everyone can see themselves in the mirror of her thoughts.
— Debasish Mridha
How do I tell people who I am? Not being a writer, the only way is to sing songs that reflect my opinions.
— Cass Elliot
Every writer loves the idea of being able to go in and fix a problem and then leave without obligation. It's fun!
— Joss Whedon
Being a writer is a gift, being an author is amazing, becoming a best seller is everyone's dream
— LaQuita Cameron
Being the only writer on a successful show is very rewarding.
— Steven Moffat
Do I mind being called a chick-lit writer? Well, it's not the worst thing that could happen.
— Marian Keyes
The secret of being a successful writer iswrite. Every writer deserves that chance. — Millicent Ashby
As a youngster, I think I said I wanted to be a journalist, but that's a disguise for being a writer.
— Romesh Gunesekera
I always wanted to be a writer, from being a little kid onwards. My dad and my mum both had phases when that was what they did.
— Kristin Gore
I hate being a writer. i tend to stick my emotions in things that cannot reciprocate. I've become a whore for my craft.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
It's fun being paid to read stuff and air your opinion about it - pretty much a dream job for a writer.
— Patrick Ness
For me, there is nothing worse than the knowledge that my life holds nothing for me but being a writer.
— Jean Stafford
The wonderful thing about being a writer is that everything that happens is grist to the mill.
— Jane Green
Sometimes constraints actually create success. Not being able to swim made me run. And running taught me the discipline I needed as a writer.
— Malcolm Gladwell
The Best Thing I love about being a writer and a poet is, I can make up my own words to fit my imagination.
— Ocean Crisstopher Poet
Part of being a fiction writer is being able to imagine how someone else is thinking and feeling. I think I've always been good at that.
— Andrew Clements
To make your life being a writer, it's an auto-slavery ... you are both the slave and the task-master.
— Susan Sontag
I spent 20 years of my career primarily being a writer for hire.
— Frank Darabont
As a writer one has to take the chance on being a fool.
— Anne Sexton
Only a person with the true heart of a dictionary-writer would be lying in bed, three days after being stabbed in the gut, worrying about his P's.
— Kristin Cashore
If I'm here, I'll be trying to be a better human being, a better writer, a better friend and a better beloved.
— Maya Angelou
Make no mistake about it, Clot: I'm a real writer. I don't have the least intention of being happy, naturally.
— Rafael Reig
My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.
— Taylor Caldwell
I suppose my Iranian identity is one of the driving forces for being a writer: I want to set the record straight about who I really am.
— Said Sayrafiezadeh
I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.
— Bret Easton Ellis
Sleeplessness and being a writer seem to go together hand in hand.
— Jason E. Hodges
I learned so much by being an actor, and part of my sort-of development as a writer is big thanks to the scripts I read in my acting life.
— Joel Edgerton
Being a writer involves writing. You've got to commit to sitting down and writing instead of Xbox or Netflix.
— Brian Keene
I don't know if I had ever found my place in the world until I fully committed to being a writer.
— Jami Attenberg
The best thing about being a fiction writer is that where the truth is inconvenient, I could veer away.
— Kaui Hart Hemmings
When a person sets out to learn from others and not to teach others he becomes a true writer.
— Carla H. Krueger
Being a writer requires an intoxication with language.
— Jim Harrison
I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.
— Peter De Vries
I think as a writer, it's important to show the other part of being gay, not only the sex part.
— Luis Negron
My job as a human being as well as a writer is to feel as thoroughly as possible the experience that I am part of, and then press it a little further.
— Jane Hirshfield
Getting away from being 'a good girl' is important because it's impossible to be a 'good girl' and a writer at the same time.
— Lynne Sharon Schwartz
I've always felt that the cool thing about being a writer is that all you need is paper to do the job.
— Dwayne McDuffie
Being a writer means crying over the sad parts, even though you already know it's going to be okay.
— Clare B. Dunkle
The thing about not being historically a mainstream writer is that everyone feels like you're theirs: you're their friend.
— Eileen Myles
Tell him I think writing is lousy," Bill said. "Go on, tell him. Tell him I'm ashamed of being a writer.
— Ernest Hemingway,
I have a healthy appetite for solitude. If you don't, you have no business being a writer.
— Will Self
As a reader myself, which precedes my being a writer, of course, I read in order to enter another world.
— Lynne Tillman
You're a writer. And that's something better than being a millionaire. Because it's something holy.
— Harlan Ellison
I love being a writer because I want to leave something here on earth to make it better, prettier, stronger.
— Cynthia Rylant
I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something.
— Ken Kesey
I love being a writer in a medium where they have to ask you, 'Can I change this line?'
— Bruce Joel Rubin
That's why I love being a writer. My imagination can take me places I may never see except in my mind's eye.
— Pearl Cleage
Had she been hanging on to her dream of being a writer, but only barely hanging on, and something made her let go?
— Sherman Alexie
People like dialogue. Being a part of it or reading it. Me personally, I'd rather write it.
— Andrea L'Artiste
There are times when I can't believe how much ridiculous stuff happens to me and how brilliant it is to be in a position to write about it.
— Carla H. Krueger
I'm better at being a lawyer than I am at being a writer.
— David Shapiro
I heard a preacher say recently that hope is a revolutionary patience; let me add that so is being a writer.
— Anne Lamott
Being an author is to have a toe in the creative pool and a foot in the vat of commerce.
— Fennel Hudson
If you can come up with a snappy little slogan, then you have a future in winning tagline competitions or being a political speech writer.
— Mark Victor Hansen
I'll never be a good writer, and no chance of being a good actor.
— Matthew Vaughn
Having children changes you forever, as a writer and as a human being. I hope it's for the better on both counts, but I guess we'll see.
— Brian K. Vaughan
You may be able to take a break from writing, but you won't be able to take a break from being a writer.
— Stephen Leigh
An essential element of being a writer is learning whom to listen to and whom to ignore where your work is concerned. Every
— Ann Patchett
Being a great writer is not the same as writing great.
— John Updike
Being a writer is not the point. Writing is.
— Mohsin Hamid
Any writer who pretends to a disaffection for recognition, I think they're being duplicitous.
— Harlan Ellison
A writer always begins by being too complicated - he's playing at several games at once.
— Jorge Luis Borges
The problem with being a writer is that some readers tend to think that anything that comes out of a character's mouth is you talking.
— Mark Billingham
The thing about being a screenwriter, scriptwriter, scenarist, You get to have multiple personalities and not be charged.
— Andrea L'Artiste
A writer can never know ultimate success, for his true success comes through still being read centuries after his death.
— Anthony North
When I'm writing a movie, it's usually pretty close to what the movie is going to be, which is just a luxury of being a writer-director.
— J. C. Chandor
I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.
— Dan Simmons
The hardest thing about being a writer is convincing your wife that lying on the sofa is work.
— John Hughes
Being a writer-director can sometimes make you incredibly blinkered.
— Anthony Minghella