Writing is simply something you must do. It's rather like…

Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward.

— Jane Austen

Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward.

— Bill Davidsen

I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and,…

— Fatty Arbuckle

Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.

— Izaak Walton

Nationalism, like virtue, has its own reward.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Love's like virtue, its own reward.

— John Vanbrugh

Love, like virtue, is its own reward.

— John Vanbrugh

Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different.

— Jane Austen

What is known as success assumes nearly as many aliases as there are those who seek it. Like love, it can come to commoners…

— Stephen Birmingham

I am basically analytical, not creative; my writing is simply a creative way of handling analysis.

— Philip K. Dick

Writing simply means no dependent clauses, no dangling things, no flashbacks, and keeping the subject near the predicate. We throw in as many fresh…

— Dr. Seuss

The earliest impetuses for writing, for me, were simply the strange things I happened to notice in my everyday life, stuff I read about…

— Dan Chaon

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

— Isaac Asimov

“Most days, writing simply requires work-ethic, discipline, clarity, focus, time. Other days...it will demand absolutely everything of you.”

— Christy Hall

Writing is simply one thought after another dying upon the one before.

— Mel Brooks