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Being a writer is like going on holidays everyday ... without the expense — Jennifer Larmar

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

The main impetus for being a writer is thinking, 'I could invent another world. I'm not terribly keen on this one.' — Mark Haddon

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 a famous writer is a little like being a tall dwarf. You're on the edge of normality. — John Updike

Being the only writer on a successful show is very rewarding. — Steven Moffat

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

I'm sick of the images trapped in my head
I'm sick of being preoccupied with the dead — Jessica-Lynn Barbour

There's a powerful magic about being a writer that I still marvel at. — Sidney Lumet

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 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 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

There is no one like you on this planet. Not everyone may have the gift of being a good writer, but each one of us has a story to tell. — K.J. Kilton

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

I write because I am a writer, not because I want to get anything out of it. — H. Raven Rose

My family didn't like me going on the stage, and they didn't much like my being a writer, either. — P.L. Travers

Part of being a writer is knowing when what you write is really bad. — Reif Larsen

The wonderful thing about being a writer is that everything that happens is grist to the mill. — Jane Green

Just being a writer allows one the maturity to have random conversations with random strangers! — Avijeet Das

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

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

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

Being a writer is not the point. Writing is. — Mohsin Hamid

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 like being pregnant - you either are or you aren't. — L.E. Truscott

Being a writer is 10% inspiration, 80% dedication and 10% going to the post office. — Jay Royston

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

A writer can never know ultimate success, for his true success comes through still being read centuries after his death. — Anthony North

I'll never be a good writer, and no chance of being a good actor. — Matthew Vaughn

A writer always begins by being too complicated - he's playing at several games at once. — Jorge Luis Borges

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

To make your life being a writer, it's an auto-slavery ... you are both the slave and the task-master. — Susan Sontag

As a writer one has to take the chance on being a fool. — Anne Sexton

My point of view as a writer has to be a lot more ego-less than just like being some performer on stage with a hairdo. — Tift Merritt

A writer hopes never to offend, but if he must, pray let him offend the gods before the reviewers. — Chila Woychik

I realised early on that being an author is a hugely misunderstood job. — Sara Sheridan

A writer in someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is. — Orhan Pamuk

In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on. — Richard Eder

I think the best thing about being a writer is getting to dream. It's constantly viewing life through the "what if?" lens. — Kevin J. Fitzgerald

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

Being a writer is an amazing job, but we're all writers, most of us just forget to put our stories down on paper. — Colette Freedman

Being a writer is like being in a relationship. If you're not 100% committed to your writing, you will fail to be the best that you can be. — Patti Roberts

Q: Best part about being a musical theatre book writer?
A: Explaining what that is. — Christy Hall

You are not the writer. You are the story being told from The Writer. — Richard Wisniewski

I love being a writer in a medium where they have to ask you, 'Can I change this line?' — Bruce Joel Rubin

Why do I write?
To be somewhere else
To get free of ourselves
To stop
To stop being anything or anywhere at all
To disappear — Rainbow Rowell

Being a writer brings out a sassy woman inside me, and I love her so. — Anna Bayes

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

There's an obvious romance to being the drinking writer. But if I'm drinking, I'm not writing. — Liz Brixius

The thing about not being historically a mainstream writer is that everyone feels like you're theirs: you're their friend. — Eileen Myles

People like dialogue. Being a part of it or reading it. Me personally, I'd rather write it. — Andrea L'Artiste

I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something. — Ken Kesey

The most fun thing about being a writer is that everything is interesting. — Rafael Yglesias

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

Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life. — Lawrence Kasdan

Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be? — Anne Lamott

Being a real writer means being able to do the work on a bad day. — Norman Mailer

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

I've sort of decided that I can settle for being just the artist, arranger, writer and part-time engineer. That seems like enough to do. — Tom Scholz

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. — W.B.Yeats

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

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

What's the use of being a writer if you can't irritate a great many people? — Norman Mailer

Being a good writer doesn't make you a good reporter, it takes hustle. — David

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

Any writer who pretends to a disaffection for recognition, I think they're being duplicitous. — Harlan Ellison

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

A good writer can fake being an expert in anything - even men's underwear. — Greg Dybec

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