Writing happened to me. I didn't decide to start writing…

When you're writing about something that happened, it helps you transition to the present. Ironically enough, by focusing on your presidency, it helps you…

— George W. Bush

“If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages.”

— Elaine Liner

I think writing would have happened to me anyway, somehow. Differently, but it still would have happened.

— Douglas Coupland

When you're writing about something that happened, it helps you transition to the present.

— George W. Bush

A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.

— Franz Kafka

If you're writing, you're a writer. If you're talking about it or thinking about it, I'm not so sure. Writing is ninety-eight percent work…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Where there is writing- there is a writer Where there is planning- there is a planner Where there is a building- there is a…

— Bliss Carman

There's less skill and more plain hard work to writing than anyone except a writer thinks.

— Mabel Seeley

writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all

— Charles Bukowski

If you do everything in your power to avoid writing and still can't, then you must be a writer.

— Fannie Flagg

Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor.…

— Stephen Dunn

My best experience as a writer was working with Michael Ondaatje. He let me dismantle his novel, reimagine it, and still had dinner with…

— Anthony

I didn't intend to be writing - the writer's life. I was just writing what came to me at the time, but it is…

— Sandra Cisneros

“A real piece of writing is one in which the writer has tried to enrich not only the book, but also his understanding of…

— Karl Wiggins

When you are not writing, you are a writer too. It doesn't leave you.

— Natalie Goldberg