Concentration Quote by Carlos Fuentes

When you're not writing, you're not doing anything else either because everything you do goes into the writing.

— Linn Ullmann

One tends to write beyond what's needed

— James Schuyler

Writing is a very lonely occupation. To write you need to concentrate, to concentrate you need to lock yourself away. No distractions; you want…

— Vikas Swarup

Perhaps the act of writing is necessary when nothing happens.

— Kobo Abe

To write requires an ego, a belief that what you say matters. Writing also requires an aching curiosity leading you to discover, uncover, what…

— Terry Tempest Williams

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

The writer is one who, embarking upon a task, does not know what to do... Writing is a process of dealing with not-knowing, a…

— Donald Barthelme

If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.

— Hugh Prather

'Writing' always means 'not writing' to me because I will do anything to put it off. I think this is mainly because writing anything…

— Catherine Tate

The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.

— Elizabeth Bowen

“Most days, writing simply requires work-ethic, discipline, clarity, focus, time. Other days...it will demand absolutely everything of you.”

— Christy Hall

You can't be a writer if you don't write, it's just that simple.

— Nicholas Sparks