“If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!”— Jackie Collins Related Quotes “If you’re a writer, the answer to everything is yes.”— Nikki Giovanni “You can write nothing of value unless you give yourself wholly to the the theme — and when you so give yourself — you lose appetite ans sleep — it cannot be helped —”— Charlotte Brontë “…writing surrounds us: it’s not something we do just in school or on the job but something that is as familiar and everyday as a pair of worn sneakers or the air we breathe.”— Andrea A. Lunsford