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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
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
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
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
If I went to someone for therapy, I wouldn't be a writer ... I would just be well adjusted.
— Garth Stein
She told me, and she would be. She told me that I was not a good enough writer to be published there
— Ernest Hemingway,
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
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
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
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
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
