Back together Quote by Anne Tyler

There are many stories I've wanted to write that I'm simply not able to - sometimes I haven't found the way in yet, and…

— Mary J. Miller

I was left with myself and had to do the one thing I could to survive. I knew it would be difficult to write,…

— Frederick Seidel

If I am feeling broken, I can pick up one of [Ivy Compton-Burnett] books and the next morning I can write again. It puts…

— Hilary Mantel

That thing you had to force yourself to do-the actual act of writing-turns out to be the best part.

— Anne Lamott

Like a small animal burrowing into its hole, I shift furniture around, and back myself into a cozy corner, with my back to the…

— Danielle Steel

Part of my mind is working on how to end the thing while I'm going on. You need at least two brains to write.

— Lydia Davis

I write at all different times. I write in my bed, I write at the table. I need to get it together. I'm working…

— Lena Dunham

I usually try to write through pain and end up digging myself into a deeper hole.

— Kit Williamson

I knew I wanted to write novels, but I could not finish what I started. The closer I got, the more ways I'd find…

— Steven Pressfield

Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has so much to do…

— Patricia MacLachlan

Once in a while, when I first started to write pieces, I would try to write to a reader other than myself. I always…

— Joan Didion

When lockdown happened, and I didn't have that focus to sit down and write a novel, which is what I was supposed to be…

— Dawn O'Porter