Gore Vidal Quotes

It's hard to remember a time when I wasn't writing.

I've always been a writer.

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

How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.'

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught, but that relentless desire to write has to come from within.

I don't remember a time when I didn't define myself as a writer.

Ninety-five percent of all writers who write do not get published, but 100 percent of all writers write because they have a voice in their head. The vast majority of writers simply write because they have to.

Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.

I've always been writing.

It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing.

The only way to be a novelist, to think that you can create something others will give themselves up to for a dozen hours or more, is to have psychotic self-belief.

I started writing one afternoon when I was twenty, and ever since then I have written every day. At first I had to force myself. Then it became part of my identity, and I did it without thinking.

It's a lot to expect of yourself, to write a novel in a year. Anyway, you don't write a novel, you write a scene, and then another scene.

I love writing. I've pursued it with a passion.

When you're a writer, everything that interests you feeds into your work.

I never know how to give advice to a writer because there's so much you could say, and it's hard to translate your own experience. But of course, I always try. The main thing that I usually end up saying is to read a lot. To read a great deal and to learn from that.

You should be writing for the love of the story, and when it comes time to return to the manuscript, everything else belongs behind a closed door.

I've been writing, in one way or another, for as long as I can remember.

I'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more.

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.

I always wrote from a very young age, literally from the time I learned how to read and write.

I've always been a writer and have always loved writing.

I'm way into writing, as much as I can.

The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is to write the book that you would want to read, and hope other people agree.