You must find your own quiet center of life, and write…

“Find your quiet center of life and write from that to the world.”

— Sarah Orne Jewett

I write because I am alone and move through the world alone. No one will know what has passed through me... I write because…

— Natalie Goldberg

Your vivid, exciting companionship in the office must not be your audience, you must find your own quiet center of life, and write from…

— Willa Cather

if you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be…

— Sarah Orne Jewett

It's a shame that when you've actually lived some life and have something to write about, they're saying you're too old to come out…

— KT Tunstall

I think most people write from what they see in their own world, which is maybe why we so often see an African-American woman…

— Tika Sumpter

“I had been a writer all of my life, every waking second, and now that part of my life was over. I suppose the…

— Bonnie Greer

Write even when the world is chaotic.

— Cory Doctorow

“I write so others might contemplate things that are out of the ordinary. I write to make people feel—to cause laughter and tears and…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“In a story you only had to wish, you only had to write it down and you could have the world.”

— Ian McEwan

Ask how to live? Write, write, write, anything; The world's a fine believing world, write news.

— John Fletcher

“I write to be a part of something - a world made up of words and ideas, which are sometimes painfully criticized, gratefully loved…

— Anonymous

I write a world where everyone is partly right.

— Orhan Pamuk

“ MarkBaynard: [...] When you wrote yr 1st book, did U ever dream it was going to be welcomed by the world w/open arms?…

— Teresa Medeiros

“No one is asking, let alone demanding, that you write. The world is not waiting with bated breath for your article or book. Whether…

— Beth Mende Conny