Bother Quote by Beth Henley

Not writing would be like going the rest of your life without having dreams.

— Stephen King

“Most people keep their dreams to themselves, afraid to follow their hearts. Writers make their dreams a reality with each word, each line that…

— CK Webb

I think the writer has to be responsible to signs and dreams. If you don't do anything with it, you lose it.

— Joy Williams

Writers write while dreamers procastinate.

— Besa Kosova

Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff…

— David Sedaris

Writing is a cop-out. An excuse to live perpetually in fantasy land, where you can create, direct and watch the products of your own…

— Monica Dickens

Writing is done alone. People do not talk about the things they do alone.

— Anneli Rufus

Don't just plan to write - write. It is only by writing, not dreaming about it, that we develop our own style.

— P. D. James

I'm not a writer who thinks about writing only for themselves; I do always have a reader in mind.

— Emma Healey

Writing provides no guarantees. And writers who stay with writing do it for reasons that are larger than self.

— Jayne Anne Phillips

So much of writing is fed by vanity and the feeling that what you are doing is the most important thing in the world…

— Pankaj Mishra

Writing seems to be the only profession people imagine you can do by thinking about doing it.

— Anna Quindlen