Awake Quote by Barbara Kingsolver

This is the most powerful thing I can do! I'm going to be a writer.

— Candace Bushnell

The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life.

— Rita Mae Brown

Once I'm writing, I'm very disciplined. There's a certain magic. It's like you're living at a deeper current. It's a very complete feeling.

— Laura Nyro

If you do everything in your power to avoid writing and still can't, then you must be a writer.

— Fannie Flagg

I get a lot of energy from making things up, which is why I feel I'm a novelist.

— Hisham Matar

I have enough energy to write with and as that is all I have any business doing anyhow, I can with one eye squinted…

— Flannery O'Connor

I kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life.

— Noah Baumbach

“Writers don’t get time off. Every moment - waking or sleeping - a writer is working, observing, thinking and creating.”

— Graeme Roberts

I have forced myself to begin writing when I've been utterly exhausted, when I've felt my soul as thin as a playing card…and somehow…

— Joyce Carol Oates

For me, writing is really an agony. I feel as if I have a huge, luminous idea that has the potential to be really…

— Alexandra Fuller

Take out another notebook, pick up another pen, and just write, just write, just write. In the middle of the world, make one positive…

— Natalie Goldberg

I can't really write unless I'm full of inspiration. And even then I can't write unless I have some alone time.

— Brett Dennen