Break Quote by Adrienne Rich

“We writers constantly try to build up our own confidence by getting published, making sales, winning prizes, joining cliques or proclaiming theories. The passion…

— Boria Sax

I believe - I know (there are not many things I should care to dogmatize about, on the subject of writing) that writers need…

— Nadine Gordimer

The idea of being a writer attracts a good many shiftless people, those who are merely burdened with poetic feelings or afflicted with sensibility.

— Flannery O'Connor

Writing is a refuge from unhappiness, but has its own sorrows.

— Mason Cooley

So many writers live their whole lives in rooms. You can be too civilised in the environment you have around you, too oriented towards…

— Lawrence Osborne

Writing is a sad process, sitting on your ass for many, many hours, alone in a room, smelling like coffee, sadness and bitterness, and…

— Amy Sherman-Palladino

Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the characters you invent, and you…

— Danielle Steel

Today, writing seems to me like an incredible luxury, almost a perversity, something which hardly exists in the world anymore, where you get to…

— Zadie Smith

writing is the loneliest job in the world. There's always that frustrating chasm to bridge between the concept and the writing of it. We're…

— Fannie Hurst

“Being a writer is an important job because we bring emotion and imagination into a world filled with endless, inane chatter.”

— Jennifer Probst

A writer is always, always searching, even against her will, against all her better instincts, for the thread of a story. Everything is fodder.…

— Miriam Toews