Critical Quote by Clive James

If you're going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones... After all, there are better ways to starve…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I write every day. Writing is a necessity - like eating.

— Mary MacLane

So I had this problem -- work or starve. So I thought I'd combine the two and decided to become a writer.

— Robert Bloch

A writer who attempts to live on the manufacture of his imagination is continually coquetting with starvation.

— Edwin Percy Whipple

Every day I try to do some small thing connected to writing. Or I'll station myself at a café and try to hold myself…

— Diana Abu-Jaber

To be honest, I used to always procrastinate when I write. I mean, I love writing, but I hate it.

— David Grann

To write for a living, according to Mr. Whipple, is coquetting with starvation.

— Francis Alexander Durivage

I try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible, I write till the end at…

— Adam Rapp

I am not a writer except when I write.

— Juan Carlos Onetti

I know writers for whom the act of writing is a necessary chore. They suffer to write great work. I am very lucky that…

— Denise Duhamel

I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music.

— Maya Angelou

I pretty much drink a cup of coffee, write in my journal for a while, and then sit at a computer in my office…

— Jess Walter