Argument Quote by Arundhati Roy

The goal is to be both disciplined and loose, so that the writing does not turn into a task or a chore. To leave…

— Pete Hamill

“If you wish to be a writer– then write, and don’t allow anyone to tell you that you’re on the ‘wrong’ path. You know…

— M. Kirin

The way I have progressed as a writer over the years is to try and stay true to the principles I absorbed.

— Rob Chapman

“I think there are writers who take a quieter approach to their work — one that is just about respectfully showing up for your…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I have always felt that the first duty of a writer was to ascend - to make flights, carrying others along if you can…

— E. B. White

In the end I'm still a writer. I'm still a journalist, and my first responsibility is to my readers. That's where I have to…

— Michael Pollan

The easiest way to separate yourself from the unformed blobby mass of "aspiring" writers is to a) actually write and b) actually finish. That's…

— Chuck Wendig

You have to fight against all the things that will keep you out of writing, because life doesn't go with writing. You will always…

— Leila Slimani

With writing, you really have to have faith. You have to have some sort of confidence that if you keep at it, you will…

— Scott Spencer

If I start playing by the rules, I will inhibit myself of the possibilities that lie beyond. I don't like to be framed or…

— Kanika Dhillon

“Rather than feeling that every moment you’ve got to exert this enormous control, you can take the attitude that your job as a writer…

— Stuart Dybek

I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat.

— Aleksandar Hemon