Attending Quote by Cate Marvin

Writing is a solitary business. It takes over your life. In some sense, a writer has no life of his own. Even when he’s…

— Paul Auster

I believe you have to write every day–make the time. It’s about having an organized mind instead of a chaotic and untidy one. There…

— Jeanette Winterson

I completely believe that - literature for me is a way of life. That's probably true of all writers or all artists. I think…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.

— Ellen Hopkins

Writing does not exclude the full life; it demands it.

— Katherine Anne Porter

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

— Emma Healey

Reading is the creative center of a writer's life." -

— Stephen King

I tend not to think about the reading public at all, or the business, when I'm writing.

— Sara Gruen

When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I do think reading is the best practice for writing, along with writing all the time. I actually never liked writing on my own…

— Tavi Gevinson

Writing is a solitary pursuit and I think you have to be partially at peace with yourself, but it's the other part that's usually…

— Craig Johnson

So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Probably all writers now are in the same boat. It is…

— Virginia Woolf