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1 " Only something extremely dire and disabling will ever stop a real writer from writing. Retirement is never an option. "
― Warren Adler
2 " ...'being published’ is not the same as being a real writer. "
― Scarlett Thomas
3 " Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always be seen as untimely. This is because a real writer is always shifting and changing and searching. The world has many labels for him, of which the most treacherous is the label of 'Success. "
― James Baldwin
4 " And yet Curt’s a real writer too. His machinery is stuck, that’s all. "
― James Purdy , Cabot Wright Begins
5 " Unlike Alice, Garp was a real writer —not because he wrote more beautifully than she wrote but because he knew what every artist should know: as Garp put it, 'You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.' Even if these so-called endings and beginnings are illusions. Garp did not write faster than anyone else, or more; he simply always worked with the idea of completion in mind. "
― John Irving , The World According to Garp
6 " The only thing you really need to be a writer is time. Regular, consistent time, quality time when you're not tired. I write on the bus to and from work, that's my time, 1 or 2 hours every single day. Make the time, keep at it, and you'll be a real writer before you know it. "
― Jonathan Maas
7 " We are all shaped by where we grow up, though that shaping takes different forms. I don't think there's any doubt that coming of age in Winnipeg both opened my eyes and made me hungry - if I can subvert all claims to be a real writer by mixing metaphors like that. "
