I want to be a writer, not an engineer who writes books. - Paulo Coelho I've discovered my vocation. I want to be a writer. - Paulo Coelho If you really want to be a writer, nobody can stop you -- and if you don't, nobody can help you. - Alma Alexander You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer. - Margaret Atwood The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any. - Russell Baker If you are going to be a writer there is nothing I can say to stop you; if you're not going to be a writer nothing I can say will help you. What you really need at the beginning is somebody to let you know that the effort is real. - James Baldwin For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living from their work that is equivalent to the living earned by the average dentist or accountant. - Russell Banks I want to...

I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a component of that identity. - Brian Aldiss I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody. - Peter Bichsel I'm pleased to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I realize I am a writer people buy to take on vacation. - Maeve Binchy I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. - Gwendolyn Brooks In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write. - Pearl S Buck I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn. - Robert Frost I have a sense of exile from thought, a nostalgia of the quiet room and balanced mind. I am a writer, and there comes a time when that which I write has to belong to me, has to be written alone and in silence, with no one looking over my sho...