Demand Quote by Bertolt Brecht

Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Carlos Fuentes

Writing is the hardest work in the world not involving heavy lifting.

— Pete Hamill

Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.

— David McCullough

Writing is thinking and thinking is hard work.

— Lewis Black

Writing is thinking in slow motion.

— Walter Kaufmann

People who don't read are brutes. It is better to write than to make war, isn't it?

— Eugene Ionesco

Writing is taking a risk, and it is actually fighting invisible and invincible enemies. They are over-confidence, stupidity, expectation and narcissism.

— Andrea Hirata

Money to a writer is time to write.

— Frank Herbert

There's less skill and more plain hard work to writing than anyone except a writer thinks.

— Mabel Seeley

Writing is like sex. The more you think about it, the harder it is to do. It's better not to think about it so…

— Stephen King

Most writers need to write. I write for money, really. If I won the lottery, I would never write another word. I would rather…

— Clarissa Dickson Wright