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I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would…

— A. E. van Vogt

In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And this means the writing has…

— Alice Munro

Whenever a person writes something, anything, it's usually because they're going through something so strong all they can do is try to put it…

— Eugenia Vela

I've never written anything that hasn't been in my mind for a long time - seven or eight years.

— John McGahern

A lot of writing is thinking.

— Horton Foote

I was a new writer and I was supposed to write all the time, wasn't I? I had not yet discovered that there are…

— Stanley Crawford

When you're writing with someone else it helps you think of things you never would've thought of.

— Ingrid Michaelson

If I don't write every day for one week or even, frankly, one year, I don't really think too much about that.

— Emily Barton

Writing is like sex. The more you think about it, the harder it is to do. It's better not to think about it so…

— Stephen King

Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.

— Elbert Hubbard

I think most writers can't really think about their work without a kind of revulsion. And I think that's probably why we keep going…

— Paul Auster

I see no reason to stop writing. But the reason isn't always one of your own. The mind is not invulnerable, and it can…

— Robert Coover