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Some say that Cusk has no sense of humour, but expecting giggles from this writer would be akin to expecting sonnets from Benny Hill. — Julie Burchill

Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write. — J.B. Priestley

I just have this feeling that if it weren't for the Gloversville Free Library that I probably would not be a writer. — Richard Russo

What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want to write about that. — Aminatta Forna

One would think a writer would be happy here
if a writer is every happy anywhere. — Raymond Chandler

To all my librarian friends, champions of books, true magicians in the House of Life. Without you, this writer would be lost in the Dust. — Rick Riordan

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

But what kind of profession is this, writer?" my mother would ask. "You want to be this?" I want to be this. — Gary Shteyngart

My mother had no idea that her daughter would turn out to be a writer, but she would not let me go through a day of my childhood without music. — Virginia Euwer Wolff

If my mother hadn't been trying to be a writer, I don't know if I would have thought of it myself. — John Updike

I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single genre. — Emma Donoghue

If I ever got sloppy and maudlin, it would be for the streets of my childhood - but no self- respecting writer should ever eulogize a slum ... — John Geddes

I do very emphatically believe there is an enormous amount of the androgynous in any all-or-nothing prose writer, or even a would-be one. — J.D. Salinger

One successful writer said he would never be a millionaire because he liked living like one too much. — David Halberstam

I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories. — Agatha Christie

I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story. — Sidney Sheldon

I would be happy to be labeled as a writer of offbeat stories. I don't know how to do anything else. — Caroline Thompson

I would not be myself without writing. — Mary Sage Nguyen

If it was easy, everyone would do it rather than going around telling you their ideas and saying how they could be a writer if they had the time. — Arthur M. Jolly

If my penis were a writer/director, it would be Woody Allen - small, neurotic, and, frankly, hit or miss. — Matthew Norman

Did you ever want to be a writer?" "No," she said, and she would have told him. "I only wanted to be a reader. — Ann Patchett

I would be ecstatic if the very first writer to step foot in a Storyknife cabin was an Alaska Native woman writer. — Dana Stabenow

Songwriting is something I really need to work on. I don't have very many songs but I really love it. I would love to be a great song writer some day. — Norah Jones

If I went to someone for therapy, I wouldn't be a writer ... I would just be well adjusted. — Garth Stein

I just knew I would be a writer. It just seemed the only sensible thing to do. — Jane Gardam

If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write. — Epictetus

She told me, and she would be. She told me that I was not a good enough writer to be published there — Ernest Hemingway,

I can see how a relationship with a writer would be an easy thing. — Jeff Bridges

The mind of the writer does indeed do something before it dies, and so does its owner, but I would be hard put to call it living. — Annie Dillard

Writing is so hard. Why would you be a writer if you weren't really good at it? If you could be anything else, why would you be a writer? — Fran Lebowitz

I'm not a writer's writer. I'm not a craftsman. I could be, and that would be a one-book-a-year operation. — James Patterson

Shakespeare is in many ways an African writer and 'Hamlet' would be seen as a very accurate historical saga about an African kingdom. — Henning Mankell

The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside — Samuel Johnson

I knew I wanted to be a writer and I knew if I had a wife and family, I would neglect something, and I was afraid it wouldn't be the writing. — Ernest Gaines

I don't want to be remembered as a writer. I would rather be remembered as a storyteller. — Ashwin Sanghi

I think writing is such a great talent, and if I was better, I would love to be a writer. — Shiloh Fernandez

A whole album to one writer - now that would be really interesting. — Alison Krauss

I don't think I knew I would be a writer. I wanted to become a writer, and I tried to write. — Romesh Gunesekera

Without the local library in my neighborhood, I don't think I would have grown up to be a writer or a teacher. — Sharon M. Draper

If I couldn't be a fiction writer, I would be a roller coaster designer for theme parks — Mike Wells

I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction. — Neil LaBute

I would like, in the long term, to be recognized as a writer-director-actor. — Corey Feldman

He who would be a writer, fine, Must take a deal of pains, Must criticize his every line, And mix his ink with brains. — Platt Rogers Spencer

I'm a struggling writer, I'm struggling to convince people I'm a writer. — Tom Conrad

I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer. — Amy Tan

Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician. — Kurt Vonnegut

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

Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic. — John Le Carre

If you could do what I do then you wouldn't be a hater/writer critiquing me, you would be my opponent facing me on the court. — Behdad Sami

I love to laugh! My life would be lessened if I didn't — Samuel Colbran

Only a writer would slap a bumper sticker on her car that read, 'Seriously, I'd rather be working'. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Sometimes life kicks you in the teeth with an irony that a self-respecting fiction writer would be ashamed to invent. — David Morrell

I would want to travel the world and write about it. To be a famous writer. — Shantel VanSanten

I think self-doubt, as grim as it can be, makes me a better writer. Stasis and hubris would probably be the death knell for my career. — Kristan Higgins

I was a novelist before I was a TV screenwriter. Actually, as a kid, I think I'd always wanted to be a writer, but never thought that I would be one. — Ben Richards

I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness. — Dave Eggers

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

You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write. — Tim Cahill

If I could split myself into five people, I would still be behind on my writing schedule. I see now why James Patterson cloned himself so many times. — Peter James West

When I was young, I wrote everything, and I thought I would be an all around writer, that I would write everything. — Edward Hirsch

Even I thought I would be a writer who put something out every year. But that's not how it worked out. — Junot Diaz

Writing was something I always as a kid thought would be fabulous and glamorous to be a writer. — Ann Leckie

I would love to be a travel writer. I'd be so stoked. — Drew Barrymore

If I wasn't a writer, I would be depressed. — J.K. Rowling

A writer without a sense of justice or injustice would be better off editing the yearbook for a school for exceptional children. — Ernest Hemingway,

There is only one person who needs to be convinced that you're a writer. That would be you. — Tim Campbell