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If you wish to be a writer, write.

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

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

Being a writer is not the point. Writing is.

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.

I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

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

To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.

You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else.

I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing.