Yes, writing is not easy. But can any writer imagine NOT…

Step out from behind the words. When you're a writer you can imagine that the words speak for you and are you, but they're…

— Beth Kephart

Yes, writing a novel, my boy, is like driving pigs to market - you have one of them making a bolt down the wrong…

— Elizabeth Bowen

“You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I…

— William S. Burroughs

Yes. I am writing full-time. Which is strange. It feels like not having a job.

— Sloane Crosley

“Yesterday I was talking to a friend, and she mentioned there was a difference in me. She asked if I was happy, and commented…

— J'son M. Lee

Yes, writing is essential to me. It's my way of living in the world.

— Claire Messud

I don't believe in writer's block, writing well is very easy; it's writing horribly, the horrible work necessary to do to get to writing…

— Dean Young

“To imagine writing as absence seems to be a simple repetition, in transcendental terms, of both the religious principle of the inalterable and yet…

— Michel Foucault

“I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was, too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.”

— Katherine Mansfield

I'm always looking for the potential mystery in everything; I can't imagine writing about anything else.

— Tana French

...imagine what you are writing about. See it and live it. Do not think it up laboriously, as if you were working out mental…

— Ted Hughes

It's such a pain in the ass to write a book, I can't imagine writing one if I'm not interested in the subject.

— Michael Lewis

I write because I can't imagine not writing.

— Richard Price

Personally, it's changed my game - it's how I think now. Can't imagine writing more than a paragraph in anything that doesn't do MMD.

— Merlin Mann

I can't imagine writing if I didn't have a reader. Any more than an actor can imagine acting without an audience.

— Joan Didion