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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
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'm sick of the images trapped in my headI'm sick of being preoccupied with the dead — Jessica-Lynn Barbour
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
My family didn't like me going on the stage, and they didn't much like my being a writer, either.
— P.L. Travers
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
