Calm Quote by Anonymous

“You do not need to be temperamental or upset to be a novelist. Don’t embrace the tortured artist rhetoric that any life difficulties might…

— Bryant A. Loney

“Always write exactly what you’re feeling at the exact moment when writing something like poetry or an emotional novel. Put yourself, pour all emotions…

— Nina Jean Slack

Writing is a solitary pursuit and I think you have to be partially at peace with yourself, but it's the other part that's usually…

— Craig Johnson

“Your writings can help people in need; motivate the tired, uplift the depressed, and give direction to the lost. The ultimate aim is the…

— Johnson C. Philip

Paradoxically, the only thing that helps when I'm feeling despairing about writing is to write.

— Laura van den Berg

I just sort of write the book I feel like writing given the emotional place I am in my life at the time.

— Bret Easton Ellis

My writing goal is just this desperation to get as much done as possible. It's never a comfortable, relaxed thing. Especially because I know…

— Steve Toltz

I'm a successful novelist, and I've been a lucky one, so I don't want to cry the poor mouth. Writing has never been easy.

— Richard Flanagan

My motto is: write about anything you bloody well like; just make sure you do it effectively. We've all had all the emotions, the…

— Suhayl Saadi

Writing has freed me from the despair of living.

— Anita Brookner

“Our job, then, is two-fold: to focus on our own failings as writers. But also to speak more forcefully as advocates for literature. Books…

— Steve Almond

“Don't panic. Midway through writing a novel, I have regularly experienced moments of bowel-curdling terror, as I contemplate the drivel on the screen before…

— Sarah Waters