Quotes About Being A Writer

#1. The most fun thing about being a writer is that everything is interesting.

Rafael Yglesias

#2. And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone.

John Irving

#3. Being a writer
is all about having something to say. And it'd better be interesting. If you don't have anything
interesting to say, don't become a writer. Become something useful. Like a doctor.

Candace Bushnell

#4. Being a writer requires an intoxication with language.

Jim Harrison

#5. I knew I wanted to be a writer before I knew that being a writer was possible.

Dani Shapiro

#6. 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

#7. The highest privilege of being a writer is being able to say, 'open your mind to me and I'll take you to another world.

Alexei Maxim Russell

#8. The Best Thing I love about being a writer and a poet is, I can make up my own words to fit my imagination.

Ocean Crisstopher Poet

#9. What's this business of being a writer. It's just putting one word after another.

Irving Thalberg

#10. Writing is the worst part of being a writer.

James Atlas

#11. What I really value about being a writer is that I can go to rehearsal when I want to, and then, when I need to be at home writing or with my kids, I go home.

Sarah Ruhl

#12. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy. But in another way, when I'm writing, what it's about for me is being good on the page. None of that noise could change the way I feel about my writing. Which is not always particularly positive.

Zadie Smith

#13. Tell him I think writing is lousy," Bill said. "Go on, tell him. Tell him I'm ashamed of being a writer.

Ernest Hemingway,

#14. Being a writer is 1% inspiration, 50% perspiration and 49% explaining you're not a millionaire like J.K.Rowling.

Gabrielle Tozer

#15. I love being a writer in a medium where they have to ask you, 'Can I change this line?'

Bruce Joel Rubin

#16. When I first thought of being a writer I had visions of stacks of books in stores with my name on them, that sort of thing. But I never imagined this would be the reaction.

Augusten Burroughs

#17. Being a writer is a more difficult job than people imagine.

Sara Sheridan

#18. I love being a writer-director. I couldn't imagine directing without writing it. You have to write and tell your stories - that's what directing is to me.

Mike Mills

#19. Being a writer, I take thing seriously (not too seriously). I may be a young writer/self publisher, I do love to write and I want to share my stories to the world. but more importantly, I do take writing seriously.

Simi Sunny

#20. I don't know if I had ever found my place in the world until I fully committed to being a writer.

Jami Attenberg

#21. Don't let others discourage you from writing. Your peers will never see your point of view and they don't have to its your story, your journey; but keep writing and become good enough so that they will notice you as the very thing they tried to steer you from. Being a writer.

K.T. Hunter

#22. Hanging out in coffee shops and talking about one day being a writer or an activist or an entrepreneur is just about the worst thing you can do.

Jeff Goins

#23. The thing about being a writer is that you never have to ask, 'Am I doing something that's worthwhile?' Because even if you fail at it, you know that it's worth doing.

Richard Ford

#24. Being a writer is a poverty trap. I mean, it's a terrible profession.

Pat Barker

#25. From being a writer of plays, it was not that surprising that somebody thought of giving me a job as an actor. After I played one part, others came along.

Wallace Shawn

#26. Read and write. That's the recipe for being a writer.

J.D. Cunegan

#27. What I love most about being a writer is the opportunity to "play Goddess" by creating happy endings for people I care about (my characters) and being able to work in my robe!

Laura Abbot

#28. Worst part of being a writer: having to tell my toddler that I can't play with her because I'm working. Keep in mind that working consists of me at home with a laptop on my lap sitting on the couch. It doesn't look like working. I don't have a hammer or anything.

Chelsea Cain

#29. I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child.

Margaret Mahy

#30. Write. If you've always dreamed of being a writer, write. Even if you think what you write is crap, write. You might be surprised by what happens!

Stephen Woods

#31. I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.

G. Willow Wilson

#32. One of the best perks of being a writer is having a safe place to park all the crazy crap residing in my head.

Coo Sweet

#33. Being a writer is a rather hazardous occupation and there is a horribly high rate of writers who barely have the money for the paper and pen they use for their craft.

Herbert Gold

#34. The downside of being a writer is you get plenty of time to overthink your life.

Donald Miller

#35. Certainly, I know what it's like to be obsessed. I haven't always been there for my children. They could reach me, but I wasn't always there. But, you know, that's not necessarily anything to do with being a writer. I mean, a taxi driver could have the same problem ... Maybe.

Henning Mankell

#36. The real skill of being a writer is being able to take your inspired moments, and make them work as a whole, through the unromantic, daily hard work.

Nick Blaemire

#37. Being a writer is a solitary life. So the little part of me that's an actor still enjoys the theatrical part of reading and doing the voices and telling the story.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#38. Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals.

Joyce Maynard

#39. One of the odd things about being a writer is that you never reach a point of certainty, a point of mastery where you can say, 'Right. Now I understand how this is done.'

Jenny Offill

#40. That was the trouble with being a writer, that was the main trouble - leisure time, excessive leisure time. You had to wait around for the buildup until you could write and while you were waiting you went crazy, and while you were going crazy you drank and the more you drank the crazier you got.

Charles Bukowski

#41. I think I was 16 when I had the thought of maybe being a writer. And this is complicated, something I only now understand, because when I was young, having dyslexia and not knowing it made reading such an ordeal.

Philip Schultz

#42. There aren't any buts," said Bill. "That's the whole point of being a writer, isn't it? If I wanted buts, I'd go and work in a fucking but factory.

Nick Hornby

#43. I suppose my Iranian identity is one of the driving forces for being a writer: I want to set the record straight about who I really am.

Said Sayrafiezadeh

#44. I hate being a writer. i tend to stick my emotions in things that cannot reciprocate. I've become a whore for my craft.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#45. The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.

Graham Greene

#46. The tricky thing about being a writer, or about being any kind of artist, is that in addition to making art you also have to make a living.

Ann Patchett

#47. Younger than Morini and Pelletier, Espinoza studied Spanish literature, not German literature, at least for the first two years of his university career, among other sad reasons because he dreamed of being a writer.

Roberto Bolano

#48. What's it like being a writer? Mostly it's like being a child surrounded by adults. My friends have grown-up careers. They balance spreadsheets, analyze data, negotiate deals. They build things, heal patients, teach children. Meanwhile, I'm over here saying "Let's pretend.

Jennifer Froelich

#49. I've always assumed it to be an absolute requirement for being a writer: to find all emotions and the sources of all behaviors somewhere within yourself.

Luc Sante

#50. Finish. The difference between being a writer and being a person of talent is the discipline it takes to apply the seat of your pants to the seat of your chair and finish. Don't talk about doing it. Do it. Finish.

E.L. Konigsburg

#51. It's a very nice kind of quasi-fame being a writer, because you remain largely anonymous and you can have a private life, which I really cherish. I don't like to be in the public light all that much. I don't crave the whole fame thing at all.

Khaled Hosseini

#52. You may be able to take a break from writing, but you won't be able to take a break from being a writer.

Stephen Leigh

#53. What satisfaction do you, personally, get from being a writer?" Lanark tried to remember. He said, "It's the only disciplined work I remember trying. I sleep better for it.

Alasdair Gray

#54. The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems like real life is flickering by and you're hardly a part of it. You remember the events in your books better than you remember the events that actually took place when you were writing them.

George R R Martin

#55. When I'm writing a movie, it's usually pretty close to what the movie is going to be, which is just a luxury of being a writer-director.

J. C. Chandor

#56. Being a writer of fiction isn't like being a compulsive liar, honestly.

Neil Gaiman

#57. I still get excited performing live. when you see the immediate reaction from a crowd, its like being a theater performer, its something you can't get from being a writer or being an ad man ... its almost ritualistic.

Marilyn Manson

#58. The hardest thing about being a writer is convincing your wife that lying on the sofa is work.

John Hughes

#59. I wanted to leave home, and I didn't know where I was going or what I was going to do or what would happen. That's youth, though. Being fixated on things. I was fixated on being a writer.

James Avery

#60. I thought about how all that mattered, in all entirety, and all I wanted,
and all I could see anything being worth anything for, was being a writer.

Ariel Schrag

#61. But I've discovered being a writer is an ongoing apprenticeship, just like everything else in life that matters to me-being a mother, a wife, a daughter, or simply a woman alive in the world, content to be myself. Today at thirty-two, I am glad to wake up each day and begin.

Sue Monk Kidd

#62. They talk about a lot of different things, but I think they definitely have the same school of thought as my husband [Games Of Thrones creator David Benioff], which is that the difference between being a writer and not being a writer is finishing.

Amanda Peet

#63. I got a lovely check today from being a writer that I earned by sitting at home. That's rewarding.

Harvey Fierstein

#64. I didn't think being a writer was a fancy thing. It was a job like any other job, except apparently you could do it at home.

Amy Bloom

#65. There's a great social component to being a writer, to being an artist.

Rebecca Makkai

#66. Part of being a writer is knowing when what you write is really bad.

Reif Larsen

#67. My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.

Taylor Caldwell

#68. I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.

Peter De Vries

#69. The best part of being a writer is you get to tell people you're a writer. That's still considered cool.

Dan Alatorre

#70. Being a writer can be isolating. It's good to be among readers and booksellers.

Lev Grossman

#71. Being a writer is like standing naked in the High Street hoping people won't find you ridiculous.

Graham Storrs

#72. 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

#73. I love writing on trains. The joy of being a writer is it's all in your head; you don't need materials apart from the laptop. It's like taking your work home with you, so you can feel grounded in your own insane writerly realities wherever you are.

Sadie Jones

#74. Being a writer is like being pregnant - you either are or you aren't.

L.E. Truscott

#75. The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.

Humphrey Carpenter

#76. Being a writer is not just about typing. It's also about surviving the rollercoaster of the creative journey.

Joanna Penn

#77. I don't think being a lawyer is more or less valuable than being a writer.

Emily Gould

#78. I like the varying rhythm of being a writer that you have a period of being in complete isolation where it's just you and the book and your screenplay and no-one can read it.

Patrick Marber

#79. Being a writer is something I love to do, plus I get independence. It's a great job for a woman because she can work at home and always be there for the children.

Anne Mather

#80. I tell my students that being a writer is like being a member of a medieval guild and that what we are doing is very subversive and very important.

Jayne Anne Phillips

#81. You know what I loved about 'Sideways'? Well, the wine, of course. But it was one of the few movies in which being a writer was realistically depicted. I loved how the Paul Giamatti character tries so ineptly to talk about his book.

Kristan Higgins

#82. Being a writer brings out a sassy woman inside me, and I love her so.

Anna Bayes

#83. Anyone literate can take an implement in hand and make marks on a flat surface. Being a writer, however, seems to be a socially acknowledged role, and one that carries some sort of weight or impressive significance - we hear a capital W on Writer.

Margaret Atwood

#84. Very little about being a writer is signing an autograph. It's sitting in a room and writing. Getting it out.

Robin Hobb

#85. I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients.

Al Alvarez

#86. Everybody talks about being a writer, angel. If every novel conceived on a bar stool made it into print, there wood not be one tree left standing on God's green Earth.

Irvine Welsh

#87. Some people get offended with what I write. In their own little pathetic world, they truly believe I should apologize for being a writer.

Daniel Marques

#88. Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life.

Lawrence Kasdan

#89. The beauty of my work is that my sets cost nothing. That's what I love about being a writer of novels.

Markus Zusak

#90. I think my family's watched me over the years in my career, in my pursuit of my career, and they've seen the challenges and the struggles that come with being an actor, with being a writer and a director, and the challenges of morphing my career in from just being an actor into a writer/director.

Ricky Schroder

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

Anne Lamott

#92. Being a writer involves writing. You've got to commit to sitting down and writing instead of Xbox or Netflix.

Brian Keene

#93. Inspiration is just one requirement for being a writer. Another is keeping regular working hours.

Zelda Popkin

#94. The secret of being a writer: not to expect others to value what you've done as you value it. Not to expect anyone else to perceive in it the emotions you have invested in it. Once this is understood, all will be well.

Joyce Carol Oates

#95. Being a writer guarantees that you will spend too much time alone -- and that as a result, your mind will begin to warp.

Anne Lamott

#96. For me, being a writer is not an altered state. It's very ponderous, and very - it's like being a shoemaker.

Anne Lamott

#97. Being a writer is 10% inspiration, 80% dedication and 10% going to the post office.

Jay Royston

#98. The only reason for being a writer, is that you can't help it.
Josh Billings

John F. Beckman

#99. An essential element of being a writer is learning whom to listen to and whom to ignore where your work is concerned. Every

Ann Patchett

#100. I vividly remember being 14. That was the age when I started to get happy: I started being a writer and stopped being a loser.

Anthony Horowitz