Desire Quote by Dean Koontz

I must never write when I do not want to write.

— Langston Hughes

Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.

— Elie Wiesel

If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.

— Hugh Prather

“People think writing is an easy job, and in some ways it is. Flexible hours, no boss, no real structure . . . but working without…

— Marc Levy

Writing is the hardest work in the world not involving heavy lifting.

— Pete Hamill

If you enjoy your journey as a writer, you will never find it difficult to write.

— Ruskin Bond

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

— Anthony Trollope

Writing cannot be done in a state of desirelessness,

— Janet Malcolm

“If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire is not to write”

— Hugh Prather

If you do not seek to publish what you have written, then you are not a writer and you never will be.

— Anonymous

Writing does not exclude the full life; it demands it.

— Katherine Anne Porter

writing, like living, is lonely work.

— Blanche Willis Howard