A writer never takes a vacation. For a writer life…

A writer never has a vacation. For a writer, life consists of either writing or thinking about writing.

— Eugene Ionesco

“When I'm not writing, I'm thinking about writing. Filling pages and people with inspiration. When my thoughts don't want to rest on a page,…

— Antonia Perdu

There's something about the idea of writing, and thinking about writing as a form of prayer - the way as a writer you call…

— Ruth Ozeki

You can't learn to play the piano without playing the piano, you can't learn to write without writing, and, in many ways, you can't…

— David McCullough

The story goes that every Jedi constructs his own lightsaber, and every penmonkey constructs his own pen. Meaning, we all find our own way…

— Chuck Wendig

“When I'm not writing, I'm thinking about writing!”

— C.S. Dixon

When people speak to me of the torment of writing, I can think only of what it was like before I wrote: once writing…

— Howard Jacobson

There is no vacation for a writer! Every moment of his life is work!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

My father told us all the time: to become a good writer takes writing. Because the more you do it, the better you get…

— Thomas Steinbeck

Any writer takes inspiration from what they read and watch, and over their career works on forming their own voice. I think it was…

— Tim Lebbon

“ (1) the Muse visits during, not before, the act of composition, and (2) the writer takes dictation from that place in his mind…

— Roger Ebert

I'm a writer because I love reading. I love the conversation between a reader and a writer, and that it all takes place in…

— Garth Stein

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as…

— Robert Frost

A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.

— Don DeLillo

A writer takes his pen. To write the words again. That all in love is fair.

— Matt Belsante