Alive Quote by Augusten Burroughs

You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough.

— Haruki Murakami

I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.

— Quentin Tarantino

Writing is a way of life. I do it because it's a way of experiencing the world, and trying to come to terms with…

— Emily Perkins

Writing is like anything else - the more you do it, the better you get at it, the easier it comes, and the less…

— Wayne Dyer

Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.

— Agatha Christie

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

— David Farr

I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it's words on the page and therefore it is something…

— Geraldine Brooks

I don't really write beautifully naturally, unlike some people.

— George Saunders

I don't enjoy any of the process of writing. I enjoy it when it goes on if it zings and it has great warmth…

— Rod Serling

Writing is a very easy way for me to express myself. When I was still at school, I would write for no reason other…

— Matthew Nable

I don't know about other writers, but for myself, to write I must be relatively quiet - it's very difficult to write with the…

— Ray Charles

The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests…

— Nathalie Sarraute