Paper Quote by Anton Chekhov

Being a writer is a rather hazardous occupation and there is a horribly high rate of writers who barely have the money for the…

— Herbert Gold

At the end of the day, I think the only way to do the kind of job a writer does is push everything aside…

— Marc Guggenheim

I've always felt that the cool thing about being a writer is that all you need is paper to do the job.

— Dwayne McDuffie

Writing is a necessity and often a pleasure, but at the same time, it can be a great burden and a terrible struggle.

— Jonathan Lethem

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

— Carlos Fuentes

“A writer who does not write is a deplorable thing, like an emaciated dog lost from home.”

— Wesley D. Gray

Writing is a wholetime job: no professional writer can afford only to write when he feels like it.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Writing is thinking on paper.

— William Zinsser

Writers have the purity of their art and what they want to achieve with that, and that this purity is bound up with the…

— Chad Harbach

I think, for any writer, when you write, you just write.

— David Farr

I know writers for whom the act of writing is a necessary chore. They suffer to write great work. I am very lucky that…

— Denise Duhamel

The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up.

— Donna Tartt