Needed Quote by Anne Clark

Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.

— Carlos Fuentes

When you're not writing, you're not doing anything else either because everything you do goes into the writing.

— Linn Ullmann

You cannot write unless you write much.

— W. Somerset Maugham

One tends to write beyond what's needed

— James Schuyler

Perhaps the act of writing is necessary when nothing happens.

— Kobo Abe

Writing is rewriting what you have rewritten.

— Paul Engle

You just have to keep getting out of your own way so that whatever it is that wants to be written can use you…

— Anne Lamott

Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.

— Elie Wiesel

What I don't write is as important as what I write.

— Jamaica Kincaid

I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again.

— Leo Tolstoy

You have to write a lot. And you have to rewrite what you wrote a lot more.

— Holly Black

I'm not like some other writers: I have no actual urgent need or desire to add to what's written. You write it; if you're…

— Tom Stoppard