Success Quote by Anne Lamott

“writers shouldn’t spend all their time doing what they don’t enjoy. Instead, they need to do what they love. They need to write.”

— Jeff Goins

“Everybody is born with a little bit of writer in them. We all come with the desire to work hard to see our creations…

— Brian A. McBride

“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

“Writers are often given the gift of being spectacularly unhappy, so that they can record the full depth of feeling.”

— Grace Bridges

“Writers don’t get time off. Every moment - waking or sleeping - a writer is working, observing, thinking and creating.”

— Graeme Roberts

“We writers are a crazy group. I can't think of any other profession where the actual work is deep within, uncomfortable, and wanting out.”

— C.J. Heck

“Writing is physical work. It’s sweaty work. You can’t just will yourself to become a good writer. You really have to work at it.”

— Will Haygood

“no writing is a waste of time--no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work.”

— Brenda Ueland

“Being a writer all boils down to this: It's you, in a chair, staring at a page. And you're either going to stay in…

— Alessandra Torre

“Life as a writer was not what I expected. I knew no other writers. I knew no writing teachers or editors. I had to…

— Lee Siegel

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

— Jennifer Probst

“People who write novels only write them when they have very little else to write”

— David Markson