I write because I cannot NOT write.

I'm always telling my students go to law school or become a doctor, do something, and then write. First of all you should have…

— Jamaica Kincaid

When you sit down to write, write. Don't do anything else except go to the bathroom, and only do that if it absolutely cannot…

— Stephen King

Just write a little bit every day. Even if it's for only half an hour — write, write, write.

— Madeleine L'Engle

“Write it. Just write it. Write it on receipts in the car while you wait for your kid to finish their piano lessons, scribble…

— Melodie Ramone

If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write. If you stop, start again. Save everything that you write. If…

— Anne Rice

“I always tell myself, 'you can write anything, but first you have to write something'.”

— Kevan Duke

Write: write letters. Keep journals. Besides your children, there is no surer way of achieving immortality.

— Ken Burns

I'm a person who, when I set out to write, I write. It's just like when you set out to eat, you eat, or…

— Juan Gabriel

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

— Mary Wesley

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