Arrive Quote by David Mitchell

Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

I'm having so much trouble with writing. Maybe if I help other people, it'll be easier for me.

— Junot Diaz

My advice would be to write -never to stop writing, to keep it up all the time, to be painstaking about it, to write…

— Gabriel Fielding

Once I start writing, I can't stop.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I'm very hard on myself when it comes to writing.

— Bryan Fuller

When I visit schools and talk to students about writing, I give them one word of advice and I give it to them quickly…

— E. L. Konigsburg

Starting writing is stressful and scary and hard, but also, it's just like going to the gym. You're just stiff and weird, and you…

— Tamara Jenkins

As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but don't get bogged…

— Joe Abercrombie

The two hardest things about writing are starting and not stopping.

— Stewart O'Nan

You have to relax, write what you write. It sounds easy but it's really, really hard. One of the things it took me longest…

— Diane Setterfield

The best and easiest lesson for me was to learn that writing is mostly hard work.

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

I can't start writing until I have a closing line.

— Joseph Heller