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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

The less conscious one is of being a writer, the better the writing. — Pico Iyer

Being an editor doesn't make you a better writer - or vice versa. The worst thing any editor can do is be in competition with his writer. — Joseph Kanon

For me, being a writer is not an altered state. It's very ponderous, and very - it's like being a shoemaker. — Anne Lamott

Being a writer of fiction isn't like being a compulsive liar, honestly. — Neil Gaiman

Everyone, except a writer, thinks writing is easy.
Writing is tough. Being a disciplined writer is tougher. — Tarang Sinha

I think part of what I like about being a fiction writer is that I can inhabit something that's beyond the limits of my own personality. — Jenny Offill

Because you happen to be a writer doesn't mean you have to deny yourself the ordinary human pleasure of being praised and applauded. — Philip Roth

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

I am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility. — Ma Jian

(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'm a singer and a writer first. I started to rap by accident, being playful. — Kesha

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'm good at being by myself. I guess if you're a writer you get used to that. — Chuck Klosterman

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 real skill of being a writer is being able to take your inspired moments, and make them work as a whole, through the unromantic, daily hard work. — Nick Blaemire

The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks. — Humphrey Carpenter

The only reason for being a writer, is that you can't help it.
Josh Billings — John F. Beckman

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

It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life. — Amy Tan

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

There's a great social component to being a writer, to being an artist. — Rebecca Makkai

Write. If you've always dreamed of being a writer, write. Even if you think what you write is crap, write. You might be surprised by what happens! — Stephen Woods

...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

I didn't think being a writer was a fancy thing. It was a job like any other job, except apparently you could do it at home. — Amy Bloom

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

Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit. — Patti Smith

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

I think being an actor makes me a better writer and vice versa. I know the kinds of roles I would kill to play, and I try to create them for others. — Katori Hall

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 professional writer is not an easy way to make a living. — Tracy Kidder

I knew I wanted to be a writer before I knew that being a writer was possible. — Dani Shapiro

One of the best perks of being a writer is having a safe place to park all the crazy crap residing in my head. — Coo Sweet

A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor. — Irwin Shaw

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

I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen. — J.K. Rowling

Being on set is difficult for the writer. Your job is done, and you have to step back and hand it over to the director. — John Niven

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 liked the idea of being a writer and letting somebody else do the graft. — Siouxsie Sioux

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