"People only become writers if they can't..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf
People only become writers if they can't find the one book they've always wanted to read.
More by Virginia Woolf
“For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.”
“To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.”
“Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.”
More on Writing
“I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book.”
“I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.”
“The writing begins when you’ve finished. Only then do you know what you’re trying to say.”
More on Creativity
“Hunger is the handmaid of genius”
“As in a love affair, two creative people can destroy themselves trying to recapture that youthful spirit, at twenty-one or twenty-four, of creating without even being aware of how it's happening”
“You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.”