Always Quote by Claire Messud

I always talk to my students about the need to write for the joy of writing. I try to sort of disaggregate the acclaim…

— Kim Edwards

For me, writing is something that I need to do. If I'm not writing, I'm not happy.

— Crystal Hana Kim

I am always writing. It is not always good, but if I am writing, I am usually happy.

— Matthew Nable

Much of the message that I try to put across to students is that they have to figure out what they really like to…

— Kadir Nelson

I feel that by writing I am doing what is far more necessary than anything else.

— Virginia Woolf

I am always writing no matter what I am doing and no matter what it is for.

— Margaret Cho

“Sure you can do anything when talking or writing, it's not like living when you can only do what you doing.”

— Anonymous

I always tell my students, about the biggest baddest things in life you must try to write small and light, save the big writing…

— Pam Houston

I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not.

— Fannie Hurst

A lot of times students will come up to me and say, "Well, I can't write because I don't know what I think about…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.

— Nick Cave

I do less of that stuff now because I figured out that when I was writing things I didn't care about, it made me…

— Tod Goldberg