Friendship Quote by Anton Chekhov

“Authors always carry a means for scribbling and an excuse for pausing, often inopportunely, to record those fleeting sparks of creative fancy that might…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Brenda Ueland

“I speak, I speak, and truth at that. Writers are a curious breed: brooding, fickle, alternately loving and hating their work—and each other. You’re…

— Chila Woychik

“No matter what you write, no matter how meticulous and painstaking the creation process, someone is going to laugh, scorn, and dissect your work…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“As writing is one of the desperate professions, it has universal appeal, especially for those not engaged in it.”

— WH Auden

“Write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you are writing, and aren't writing particularly well.”

— Agatha Christie

“You can be a writer who doesn't read everyday. But you're not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.”

— Don Roff

“I have so little control over the act of writing that it's all I can do to remain conscious. Actual formal considerations are almost…

— David Rakoff

“Writing is such a solitary occupation that it takes a long time to build up a group of professional peers with whom you genuinely…

— Sara Sheridan

“writing is a very lonely occupation. You have no colleagues, but your office space is shared with countless horrible little demons of self-doubt, and…

— Daphne Kapsali

“I don't sit here and make these stories up. They are delivered to me, over time, by some relentless and shadowy demand. Trust me,…

— Julian Lorr

“On some days, writing is wonderful. On the days when it is wonderful, it feels like you are the God of a universe that…

— Leigh Whannell