Aspiring Writer Quotes

#1. I'm an aspiring writer.' I hate that phrase. You're either a writer or you're not.

Jake Black

#2. It's not easy making a living as a writer, and for many years I worked at a Waterstones in Dublin. It was a good environment for an aspiring writer, with lots of events and authors appearing.

John Boyne

#3. I see myself much more as a writer/director or at least an aspiring writer/director - not necessarily in film.

Ricky Gervais

#4. I cannot tell you how important fresh, crisp writing is for an aspiring writer. Plot is great. The overall concept is super important. But the writing is what sells your work. It all boils down to the words you choose and the order in which you arrange them.

Darynda Jones

#5. I think when you are an aspiring writer, you must write every day. It's not as though anybody will call you up on the phone and say, "I understand you are a very promising, aspiring writer and I'm going to give you this assignment." You have to create it yourself or it's never going to happen.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#6. The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right.

Gene Weingarten

#7. When I read students' attempts at creative writing it is obvious immediately that most of them have not read much or widely. The aspiring writer must read everything he or she can to appreciate the myriad ways words are used and to what effect.

Julius Lester

#8. I'm always amused when people point out that Benjamin's naivety about the publishing process is just so unbelievable in Starborn #1 since, of course, no aspiring writer in reality could ever be so naive.

Chris Roberson

#9. The most important thing for any aspiring writer, is to read! And not just the sort of thing you're trying to write, be that fantasy, SF, comic books, whatever. You need to read everything.

George R R Martin

#10. Hey, you, aspiring writer, stop aspiring and start WRITING already!

Ksenia Anske

#11. In many ways, a degree in the history of ideas is the ideal training for an aspiring writer.

Anne Fortier

#12. In college, I think I probably positioned myself as an aspiring writer, meaning I dressed sort of extravagantly and adopted all the semi-Byronic affectations, as if I were writing, although I wasn't actually doing any writing.

Anthony Bourdain

#13. There is no such thing as an "aspiring writer". You are a writer. Period.

Matthew Reilly

#14. There's just one advice for an aspiring writer; write.

Sci Furz

#15. Holding my camera, freezing, and a mile from flames that could burn me alive, I'd finally found what I didn't know I was looking for.

Jamie McGuire

#16. He took a breath. "My future wife's in the police...

"Wait, wait, wait. How long have you been going out with this woman?"

Luca cleared his throat again, this time with deserved sheepishness. "We met yesterday.

Billy London

#17. Stay away from windows. And if you see people with tentacles, stay away. Don't let them touch you." Harshen

Scott Hawkins

#18. When you went into a Boston Chicken and ordered quarter-chicken, white, with mash and corn, when that was rung up, that would signal all the way along the supply chain the need for more potatoes to be put on a truck a thousand miles away.

Stephen Elop

#19. I'm a struggling writer, I'm struggling to convince people I'm a writer.

Tom Conrad

#20. As a dedicated, successful writer, Lydia Sigourney violated essential elements of the very gender roles she celebrated. In the process, she offered young, aspiring women writers around the country an example of the possibilities of achieving both fame and economic reward.

Lydia Sigourney

#21. I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught, but that relentless desire to write has to come from within.

Lisa Kleypas

#22. Newsweek never hired women as writers and only one or two female staffers were promoted to that rank no matter how talented they were ... Any aspiring journalist who was interviewed for a job was told, If you want to be a writer, go somewhere else
women don't write at Newsweek.

Lynn Povich

#23. I was having a bit of trouble. I wasn't in a good relationship. Or I was in too many bad relationships. I had so many girlfriends at that point. None of them seemed to care they weren't pleasing me very much. I was obviously in with the wrong group.

Mick Jagger

#24. The liberals' present furor over the CIA's covert operations against al-Qaida suggests that they harbor a death wish not only for themselves but also for the whole country.

Bob Tyrrell

#25. Learning to "find my place in the world" translates in the practical language of life as "finding my little slot in the big State machine.

Anna Sofia Botkin

#26. Because as any writer will tell you, an IDEA for a book is like falling in love, it's all wild emotion and headlong rush, but the ACTUAL ACT of writing a book is like building a relationship: it is joyous, slow, fragile, frustrating, exhilarating, painstaking, exhausting, worth it.

Ben H. Winters