If You Want To Be A Writer Write Quotes

#1. If you want to be a writer, write a little bit every day. Pay attention to the world around you. Stories are hiding, waiting everywhere. You just have to open your eyes and your heart.

Kate DiCamillo

#2. Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.

Ike Barinholtz

#3. If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write.

Anne Rice

#4. A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write.

Regina Brett

#5. If a writer is so cautious that he never writes anything that cannot be criticized, he will never be able to write anything that can be read. If you want to help other people you have got to make up your mind to write things that some men will condemn.

Thomas Merton

#6. You want an audience. If you didn't, you wouldn't be a writer. The biggest motivation to write is the knowledge that someone will read it.

Andy Weir

#7. If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day ... You don't go to a well once but daily. You don't skip a child's breakfast or forget to wake up in the morning ...

Walter Mosley

#8. I never bought the excuse of not having time to write. If you really want to do it, you're either going to find those hours or eventually decide not to be a writer.

Harlan Coben

#9. If you want to be a writer, you write. Everybody wants to get published. You gotta play your long game.

Paul Harding

#10. If you want to be a writer, I have two pieces of advice. One is to be a reader. I think that's one of the most important parts of learning to write. The other piece of advice is 'Just do it!' Don't think about it, don't agonize, sit down and write.

S.E. Hinton

#11. If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!

Jackie Collins

#12. If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.

Albert Brooks

#13. If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.

Stephen King

#14. If you want to be a writer, then write. Write every day!

Samuel Johnson

#15. If I'd learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can't be a man, write like one.

Julianna Baggott

#16. If you want to be a professional writer then you need to write consistently. Inspiration strikes about once every blue moon which, for me, is once every two and a half to three months, which is when I'll get really and truly inspired about something.

Christopher Paolini

#17. 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

#18. We want to be famous as a writer, as a poet, as a painter, as a politician, as a singer, or what you will. Why? Because we really don't love what we are doing. If you loved to sing, or to paint, or to write poems, if you really loved it you would not be concerned with whether you are famous or not.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#19. I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because someone's told me to.

Fay Weldon

#20. For as long as I write,
I will never be lost.

Nikki Rowe

#21. Primo Levi's - I mean, he's a very different kind of writer. He's a much more formal writer. He's a much more -almost detached. I mean, I wouldn't really say that he's detached ultimately. But he does write as a scientist, and so he describes things very - in great detail, very carefully.

Ann Goldstein

#22. I'm like a unicorn; I'm a midlist writer who hasn't done anything else but write. But because I wasn't amazingly famous, I didn't become Stephanie Meyer, or even a huge literary name like a Jonathan Franzen or a Joshua Ferris.

Gabrielle Zevin

#23. When you're a mid-list writer, it pays to write fast.

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

#24. I'm not a good writer. It takes me a long time to get there. I write and then rewrite and revise and do it over and over until I'm satisfied.

M.J. Rose