I always thought of writing as holy. I still do. It’s not…

“When I was in high school, all my friends said they were going to be writers. And I thought, How come you get to…

— Deborah Eisenberg

Writing is a holy chore.

— Harlan Ellison

If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.

— Terry Brooks

“He had no intention of writing. He loved reading, that was all. And he read books that he thought so far beyond anything that…

— Niall Williams

I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

“I have never thought of writing as a profession. It is a solitary independent activity in which practice can never bestow seniority.”

— John Berger

I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.

— Nora Roberts

“I thought of writing a summary about you, but when I finished it was a book.”

— Amit Kalantri

I read all the time. Sometimes I get asked if I've thought about writing a novel.

— Noah Baumbach

I thought writing about somebody current would be a little closer to what I'm used to doing.

— Adam Clymer

I never thought about writing. I was married young, I was still in college, as we did then, and I had two babies before…

— Judy Blume

When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!

— Roald Dahl

One great aim of revision is to cut out. In the exuberance of composition it is natural to throw in - as one does…

— Jacques Barzun

“I’ve never thought of writing as the mere arrangement of words on the page but the attempted embodiment of a vision; a complex of…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I always thought that writing poetry was in itself a political act.

— John Ashbery