Bed Quote by Charles Bukowski

The writer's duty is to keep on writing.

— William Styron

A writer who isn't writing is asking for trouble.

— Walter Kirn

Nothing the writer can do is ever enough.

— Joy Williams

The writer is a writer because he cannot help it. It is a compulsion.

— Edna Ferber

At some point if you're a professional writer, no matter what, it always comes down to you staring at the blank page by yourself.

— Marc Guggenheim

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

The only way to get anything out of a writer's brains is to leave him or her alone until he or she is damn…

— Kurt Vonnegut

A writer will do anything to avoid the act of writing.

— William Zinsser

Writers write without support.

— Luis Alberto Urrea

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

— Carlos Fuentes

The writer is one who, emnbarking upon a task, does not know what to do.

— Donald Barthelme

No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.

— Irwin Shaw