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

To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.

I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that I would have the patience in front of a blank sheet of paper to become a writer.

The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better to do, like I've got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. There's always something better to do. Going to a writer's club?

As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but don't get bogged down in it.

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

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

I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write.