Letters Quote by Charles Dickens

“Most of my writing life, to be perfectly honest, is not freaky, old-timey, voodoo-style Big Magic. Most of my writing life consists of nothing…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Now, writing every day, and being paid for it and encouraged to do it, it was as if, in the midst of the clich?d…

— Tanith Lee

“As a writer, I do not treat writing merely as a profession but more of as my "calling" and my way of life. In…

— Elizabeth E. Castillo

“We, and I think I'm speaking for many writers, don't know what it is that sometimes comes to make our books alive. All we…

— Madeleine L'Engle

It's a job. When I'm writing I'm going to do it five to six days a week and I'm going to work for four…

— Candace Bushnell

“I wrote these letters in the mornings before work, in the library, during my sessions of prolonged loitering in Commons, where I remained every…

— Donna Tartt

I've been doing nineteen hours a day on London, nothing else, I mean this has been my whole life, and writing has been put…

— Jeffrey Archer

“Writing … is an addiction, an illusory release, a presumptuous taming of reality, a way of expressing lightly the unbearable. That we age and…

— John Updike

“Being a writer is like going on holidays everyday ... without the expense”

— Jennifer Larmar

“Writers get to construct a magical world that readers can visit in thought and extend their stay with imagination.”

— Sandra Alex

“You shall see rude and sturdy, experienced and wise men, keeping their castles, or teaming up their summer’s wood, or chopping alone in the…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Every day is a writing day. I get to my desk between 8 and 8:30 in the morning and then work through until 6pm,…

— Clive Barker