Becoming A Writer Quotes

#1. Becoming a writer means being creative enough to find the time and the place in your life for writing.

Heather Sellers

#2. One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic.

H. G. Bissinger

#3. While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism.

Julianna Baggott

#4. Becoming a writer can kind of spoil your reading because you kind of read on tracks. You're reading as someone who wants to enjoy the book but also, as a writer, noticing the techniques that the writer uses and especially the ones that make you want to turn the page to see what happened.

Homer Hickam

#5. Really, becoming a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice.

Shannon Hale

#6. Becoming a writer is a polite way of saying you've chosen alcoholism as a career.

Joe Ducie

#7. The first time I can remember thinking that I would like to be a writer came in sixth grade, when our teacher Mrs. Crandall gave us an extended period of time to write a long story. I loved doing it. I started working seriously at becoming a writer when I was seventeen.

Bruce Coville

#8. I think the path to becoming a writer has become more through the novel. It's easier to get a novel published than a book of stories, obviously, especially through big publishers.

Jess Walter

#9. The secret of becoming a writer is to write, write and keep on writing.

Ken MacLeod

#10. If you think about becoming a writer, that's just really one of the big dreams I had. It's really important to have those dreams and pursue your passions.

Deb Caletti

#11. I first thought about becoming a writer after the age of 30, which is rather late, I'd say. In my 20s, I wasn't especially good at anything, and I didn't have a lot of experiences. I was just a young woman without a good job.

Natsuo Kirino

#12. I dreamed of becoming a writer. And ... this dream is about to become a reality with the publication of my first, and hopefully not my last, children's book ...

Gloria Estefan

#13. I'm first and foremost a writer. I followed my personal legend, my childhood dream of becoming a writer, but I can't say why I'm one.

Paulo Coelho

#14. I didn't go to law school to become a lawyer, per se - let's just say I was leaning in to some strong suggestions from my parents - but my nebulous goals of someday becoming a writer were just that, nebulous.

Rachel Sklar

#15. One of the more interesting things I've learnt since becoming a writer is that if you like the book, you'll generally like the person. It doesn't always work in reverse - there are huge numbers of lovely people out there writing not very good books.

Meg Rosoff

#16. My youthful dream of becoming a writer has been realized. I am so pleased I did not let my young self down.

Jack Gantos

#17. Becoming the reader is the essence of becoming a writer.

John O'Hara

#18. Like most people, I was not able to start selling my stories right away. So I had many other jobs along the way to becoming a writer, including toy maker, gravedigger, cookware salesman, and assembly line worker. Eventually, I became an elementary teacher and worked with second and fourth graders.

Bruce Coville

#19. The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.

Moliere

#20. I sold a book six years after I left an MFA program. In between, there was a lot of endurance of poverty and a lot of fighting off doubt. It's all a part of the process of being or becoming a writer.

Chad Harbach

#21. I think my grandmother Woodrell was most responsible for my becoming a writer. She wasn't quite literate, but was very proud that she attended school as far as the third grade. She worked as a maid, housekeeper and cook.

Daniel Woodrell

#22. The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.

Harlan Ellison

#23. Reading usually precedes writing. And the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer.

Susan Sontag

#24. Becoming a writer is not a 'career decision' like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don't choose it so much as get chosen, and once you accept the fact that you're not fit for anything else, you have to be prepared to walk a long, hard road for the rest of your days.

Paul Auster

#25. I wanted to be a librarian from a very young age. Some of my earliest memories are being taken to the local library. I ended up working as a bookseller. Becoming a writer was the logical offshoot of being a reader.

Michael Scott

#26. Although I always loved reading and putting words on paper, I never thought about becoming a writer until I was twelve.

Kimberly Willis Holt

#27. There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.

Quentin Crisp

#28. As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.

Neil Gaiman

#29. When I was really young, I wanted to grow up and be the sun. Which shows an early penchant for ambition or narcissism or grandiosity or delusion - all of which are bellwethers for becoming a writer.

Gayle Forman

#30. I have never stopped considering not becoming a writer.

Joshua Ferris

#31. Perhaps I wasn't going crazy after all. Perhaps I was just becoming a writer.

Janette Rallison

#32. Becoming a writer does not mean words will suddenly flow with perfection from your pen. It takes hard work, rejection, and the willingness to lay everything inside you out for the world to see.

Jason E. Hodges

#33. I've long considered becoming a writer to be the death of nightmares. For me at least, since I started writing I hadn't had any. Something really terrible or awful happens in a dream and you wake up and think, awesome, and reach for a pen and paper.

Logan Kain

#34. In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.

Kate Morton

#35. I feel like a very lucky person. From the time I was young, I had a dream of becoming a writer. Now that dream has come true, and I am able to make my living doing something I really love.

Bruce Coville

#36. I came from two harsh dictatorships, Nazi and Stalinist. I never thought of becoming a writer as such, yet in a lucid moment, I recognised what I had to do.

Imre Kertesz

#37. I've always loved baseball. Ever since 6th grade, I was geared to becoming a baseball writer.

Scott Miller

#38. One of the best things that happened for me as a playwright is becoming a comic-book writer.

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

#39. I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote was a one-page summary of Robinson Crusoe and I am so sorry I do not have it any more; it was at that moment I became an author.

Henning Mankell

#40. By the time I was twenty-three, I'd given up any thought of becoming a fiction writer, and I didn't return to the craft for over two decades. But, at the age of forty-five, return I did.

Eric Flint

#41. I had a blog where I tried to be transparent while giving away nothing. I tweeted and Facebooked badly. As a writer, your 'voice' is your calling card, yet my voice was becoming indistinguishable from billions of other voices.

Ellen Potter

#42. The writer trapped among a speechless people is in danger of becoming speechless himself. For then he has no mirror, no corroborations of his essential reality; and this means that he has no grasp of the reality of the people around him.

James Baldwin

#43. If you're well-known, you're at the risk of becoming your own character. When you're alone, as a writer, you have to be unknown, putting it all on the paper.

Antonio Munoz Molina

#44. The starting point for becoming a good writer is to be a good reader.

Steven Pinker

#45. I'm really clear about what my life mission is now. There's no more depression or lethargy, and I feel like I've returned to the athlete I once was. I'm integrating all the parts of me - jock, musician, writer, poet, philosopher - and becoming stronger as a result.

Alanis Morissette

#46. Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be?

Anne Lamott

#47. People don't really know themselves until they're 30. Like most people nowadays, I went to university, got a degree and wandered for a bit. I trained to be a chartered accountant, which I didn't much enjoy, and it was only slowly that the idea of becoming a creative writer gelled.

Wilbur Smith

#48. To participate requires self-discipline and trust and courage, because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, as my friend Dale puts it, How alive am I willing to be?

Anne Lamott

#49. Becoming a better writer is going to help you become a better reader, and that is the real payoff.

Anne Lamott

#50. The idea of being productive, the idea of producing many books is going to lead you toward you becoming a better and better writer.

Walter Mosley

#51. He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was such a pleasure and I thought we must find another writer.

Simon Callow

#52. Being a writer is a gift, being an author is amazing, becoming a best seller is everyone's dream

LaQuita Cameron

#53. A true writer is someone the gods have called to the task.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#54. Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer.

Jessica Hagedorn

#55. When you're coming up with different ways of getting old memories to transform - you're scratching, you're doing all this kind of sampling - what ends up happening is that you're becoming a kind of writer with sound.

DJ Spooky

#56. My childhood was spent in my local library in a San Diego suburb. It's where I became a writer - by 1st becoming a reader!

Tess Gerritsen

#57. You should only become a writer if the possibility of not becoming one would kill you.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#58. I do increasingly feel like becoming a better writer is about trying to find new ways to solve the same problems over and over again, and I'll maybe be a good writer after I have solved the same problem ten million times.

Mike Young

#59. 10 Steps to Becoming a Better Writer
Write.
Write more.
Write even more.
Write even more than that.
Write when you don't want to.
Write when you do.
Write when you have something to say.
Write when you don't.
Write every day.
Keep writing.

Brian Clark

#60. When I was growing up, I dreamed about becoming a cowgirl, a detective, a spy, a great actress, or a ballerina. Not a dentist, like my father, or a homemaker, like my mother - and certainly not a writer, although I always loved to read.

Judy Blume

#61. I'm simply interested in what is going to happen next. I don't think I can control my life or my writing. Every other writer I know feels he is steering himself, and I don't have that feeling. I don't have that sort of control. I'm simply becoming. I'm startled that I became a writer.

Kurt Vonnegut

#62. There's something more surprising than becoming a bestseller, and that's receiving messages of hate by other fellow authors.

Daniel Marques