It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.

One writes to teach, to move or to delight.

Writers are the main landmarks of the past.

Television has raised writing to a new low.

Writers write. Everyone else makes excuses.

Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.

I write to be the characters that I am not.

I like writing about biology, not doing it.

It took me 40 years to write my first book.

Goals in writing are dreams with deadlines.

Writing is hard for everybody except fools.

There is no story unless you've written it.

I sit with the intention to write a record.

I just write from how I feel. As an outlet.

Sometimes I write well when I'm very upset.

A writer's work is the product of laziness.

I write to find out what I'm talking about.

I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.

I write poetry in order to live more fully.

I don't write quickly, and I don't want to.

The better the writing, the easier it gets.

Your life is a blank page. You write on it.

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

I should be concentrating on writing pages.

Write about the emotions you fear the most.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

you must not come lightly to the blank page.

I started writing when I was about thirteen.

I like to write when I feel I'm the real me.

Writing is the worst part of being a writer.

In certain ways writing is a form of prayer.

To write, you must first belong to yourself.

I don't know how to write a children's book.

Dare to ask, "Where is my novel too simple?"

You can't write something to please someone.

I stopped dying the moment I started writing

As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.

I just want to write someone’s favorite book

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

I hate to write, but I love to have written.

My best writing has always been in journals.

Writing is above all a question of instinct.

Write what you love and love what you write.

Write for the right reasons - i.e. yourself.

Why write stories? To join the conversation.

Everything I write has a precedent in truth.

Don't write about that which you don't know.

Fantasy flows in where fact leaves a vacuum.

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.

Nobody believes this, but I write very fast.

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