Being Writer Quotes
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'being published' is not the same as being a real writer.
— Scarlett Thomas
Being a writer is 1% inspiration, 50% perspiration and 49% explaining you're not a millionaire like J.K.Rowling.
— Gabrielle Tozer
Being a writer is great, and being a parent is great, and I hate Marching Band.
— MaryJanice Davidson
It's very important to feel foreign. I was born in England, but when I'm being a writer, everyone in England is foreign to me.
— V.S. Pritchett
Becoming a writer means being creative enough to find the time and the place in your life for writing.
— Heather Sellers
A writer illuminates the lights of her heart so that everyone can see themselves in the mirror of her thoughts.
— Debasish Mridha
Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.
— Walter Jon Williams
I love being a writer. I am very lucky my life's ambition turned out to be just as much fun as I thought it would be.
— J.K. Rowling
Being a writer is a gift, being an author is amazing, becoming a best seller is everyone's dream
— LaQuita Cameron
For me, being a writer is not an altered state. It's very ponderous, and very - it's like being a shoemaker.
— Anne Lamott
Everyone, except a writer, thinks writing is easy. Writing is tough. Being a disciplined writer is tougher. — Tarang Sinha
My favorite thing is being able to follow my inspiration, and the freedom of being a writer is hard to beat.
— Mike White
In a certain sense a writer is 'selected' by his subject - his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
— Nadine Gordimer
I really, deeply believe in the primacy of character. I believe that my job as a writer is to put a believable human being on a page.
— Ayana Mathis
(Interested in being a better writer? Go buy yourself a copy of The Collected Stories by Grace Paley.) The
— Ann Patchett
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
I've been accused of being a minimalist writer. I don't like a lot of verbiage in there.
— Kathy Reichs
The best thing about a being a writer is the creative process. I often describe it as a beautiful headache that I wouldn't change for anything.
— Nicole Huggins
The wonderful thing about being a writer is that everything that happens is grist to the mill.
— Jane Green
He was a shadow of the man that once intimidated us out of our home, a shell of a human being, a fragment of a father.
— David Louden
Being passionate about something is the most beautiful characteristic you can develop.
— Charlotte Eriksson
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
One of the difficulties of being a writer must be that you create drama that you can't live out. That's one of the wonderful things about acting.
— Anjelica Huston
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
The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.
— Humphrey Carpenter
I am very fortunate in that I have spent pretty much my whole life being a writer, and before I was a writer, I was a storyteller.
— Isobelle Carmody
I like being a writer.
— Terry Pratchett
Being a writer guarantees that you will spend too much time alone -- and that as a result, your mind will begin to warp.
— Anne Lamott
I am a meat-loving Southern girl. Add in being a writer, and that means I drink more than I should, too.
— Sarah Lacy
A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
All the fantasy writers I know have a way of dwelling on their own fears and phobias. A writer spends his life being his own psychiatrist.
— Charles Beaumont
Writing is the worst part of being a writer.
— James Atlas
Some people get offended with what I write. In their own little pathetic world, they truly believe I should apologize for being a writer.
— Daniel Marques
It implies a slight failure as a writer that you are reduced to being a ghostwriter for the money.
— Robert Harris
Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler's Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah.
— David Mamet
This is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said.
— William, Saroyan
How do I know I'm a good writer? Every single time I arrive or leave my hometown, I'm the only passenger always being checked for drugs.
— Daniel Marques
Telling a writer to relax is like telling a man to relax while being prodded for a possible hernia.
— William Zinsser
The privilege of being a writer is that you have this opportunity to slow down and to consider things.
— Chris Abani
...being "rather unique" is no more possible than being rather pregnant.
— William Zinsser
One of the problems with being a writer is that all of your idiocies are still in print somewhere. I strongly support paper recycling.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Being a writer is a more difficult job than people imagine.
— Sara Sheridan
Being asked to read another writer's rough draft is the literary equivalent of being asked to help a friend move a couch to a new place.
— Paul Tremblay
Read and write. That's the recipe for being a writer.
— J.D. Cunegan
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
— W.B.Yeats
Sleeplessness and being a writer seem to go together hand in hand.
— Jason E. Hodges
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
To make your life being a writer, it's an auto-slavery ... you are both the slave and the task-master.
— Susan Sontag
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
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
Being a writer is not the point. Writing is.
— Mohsin Hamid
The best thing about being a fiction writer is that where the truth is inconvenient, I could veer away.
— Kaui Hart Hemmings
The thing about being a screenwriter, scriptwriter, scenarist, You get to have multiple personalities and not be charged.
— Andrea L'Artiste
The hardest thing about being a writer is convincing your wife that lying on the sofa is work.
— John Hughes
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
I love being a writer because I want to leave something here on earth to make it better, prettier, stronger.
— Cynthia Rylant
The thing about not being historically a mainstream writer is that everyone feels like you're theirs: you're their friend.
— Eileen Myles
You are not the writer. You are the story being told from The Writer.
— Richard Wisniewski
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
My transition from not being a writer to being one was instantaneous, like the change from docile bank clerk to fanged monster in "B" movies.
— Margaret Atwood
I vividly remember being 14. That was the age when I started to get happy: I started being a writer and stopped being a loser.
— Anthony Horowitz
I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.
— Jon Krakauer
I will always love being a writer. There is nothing greater than that.
— Millicent Ashby
Most of my success, I feel, comes from being a good editor as opposed to a great writer.
— Tucker Max
The writer that you are, I guess you're used to being a kind of dictator, telling the characters in your stories what to do.
— Dean Koontz
Being a comedy writer gives you permission to be an outsider and poke fun at what people think about other people.
— Michael Patrick King
Being out in nature inspires me as a writer.
— Jason Mraz
Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.
— Rudy Rucker
The only patient being treated by the writer is himself
— Philip Roth
Part of being a writer is defending your vision and not caving in to outside pressures.
— Jennifer Crusie
The highest privilege of being a writer is being able to say, 'open your mind to me and I'll take you to another world.
— Alexei Maxim Russell
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
I spent 20 years of my career primarily being a writer for hire.
— Frank Darabont