But I don't write so much now, because they're too painful.

All writers have periods when they stop writing, when they cannot write, and this is always painful and terrible because writing is like breathing.

— Audre Lorde

To disguise nothing, to conceal nothing, to write about those things that are closest to our pain, our happiness; to write about our sexual…

— John Cheever

I didn't have to say it. I just had to write it. It was painful enough.

— Robert B. Parker

I don't write for any particular kind of person.

— Mary Wesley

I don't write autobiographically.

— Meg Wolitzer

When you're rich you don't write checks.

— Randy Moss

I don't write my own publicity materials, I just read 'em and give 'em the OK.

— John Darnielle

I write a lot, and then forget what I've written, and then come back to it and say, "Not bad, I should do something…

— Allison Joseph

Having a point to start is important. You know that when you decide to write something it's like a commitment. It's like falling in…

— Isabel Allende

Writers…born not in the Halls of Education…but in the fires of necessity. Masters not of prose, form, language, or a perceived command of the…

— Vladislas Nikilovic

Kids, if anything, are harder to write for because they are a more discerning audience. They will not stay with you if you go…

— Rick Riordan

Some writers say they cannot write in front of a window; many say they cannot function without almost perfect quiet. A writer with only…

— Gene Wolfe

My writing routine is: get son off to school and sit down at 8 A.M. I read what I wrote the day before, and…

— Tracy Chevalier

“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and…

— Neil Gaiman

I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.

— Moliere