Busy Quote by Andrew Motion

Busyness, I feel increasingly, is the writer's curse and downfall. You read too much and write too readily, you become cut off from your…

— Hilary Mantel

I'm very aware there are lots of other people who are just bright and working just as hard, with just the same dedication to…

— Tim Berners-Lee

writing, like living, is lonely work.

— Blanche Willis Howard

I don't know if I had ever found my place in the world until I fully committed to being a writer.

— Jami Attenberg

Writing is not a great profession as a lot of writers proclaim. I write because this is something I can do. Another thing—very often…

— Ha Jin

I've always been busy, but I wasn't always successful.

— W. Bruce Cameron

I write incredibly slowly. And, on top of that, I spent my entire youth and twenties working like a dog, so one of the…

— Junot Diaz

I know people who are really talented at writing, and they just don't ever make it happen because they're also good at other things.

— John Brandon

I think many people have wonderful stories inside them and the talent to tell those stories. But the writing life, with its isolation and…

— Ellen Ullman

Part of living, part of becoming a wise man or a wise woman, is to get to that point where you can have a…

— Norman Mailer

I think it's quite difficult to understand what kind of life a writer leads. They might be millionaires, or they might be starving people.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only…

— A. E. van Vogt