Achievement Quote by Anna Garlin Spencer

I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.

— Patrick White

I did not write it (Uncle Tom's Cabin). God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“I’ve often thought the biggest element of successful writing is the ability to get the seat of your pants to the seat of a…

— Agnes Nixon

“The hardest part of writing is the same as doing your homework...it's staying seated in your chair.”

— Anonymous

“You get no writing done at all if you sit at a table with a view. You'd spent the whole time watching the birds…

— Mary Stewart

“For twenty years I have sat alone at a desk tinkering with sentences and then sending them out, and for most of my literary…

— Rebecca Solnit

Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a few words.

— Norman Mailer

Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it, putting words on paper that have never been there in…

— William Goldman

Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

— Sholem Asch

“The words of his various writing instructors and professional mentors over the years came back to him at times like these, and he found…

— Vincent H. O'Neil

Writing is hard. I mean, I sit there and work at it.

— George R. R. Martin

I think at the start of writing it was less intense topics, and then once I broke the seal I was more comfortable writing…

— Luke Hemmings