Goes on Quote by Dodie Smith

For myself, I keep writing. I've got to do something. I can't sit on my hands and do nothing.

— Angus Young

Keep your hands moving. Writing is rewriting.

— August Wilson

When I'm having trouble I write by hand. There is some connection between the mind and the fingers that draws out words.

— Sophy Burnham

If I haven't anything to write, I am just as anxious to 'take my pen in hand' as though I had a message to…

— Kate Douglas Wiggin

Hitch your unconscious mind to your writing arm.

— Dorothea Brande

I am compulsive about writing, I need to do it the way I need sleep and exercise and food and sex; I can go…

— John Irving

I have a writing addiction.

— Prince

I write and that way rid myself of me and then at last I can rest.

— Clarice Lispector

I sit down and I write what I'm thinking and what I feel - it happens all at once, I never stop writing.

— Lydia Hearst

If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway. If you can think of lots more when you've finished the three…

— Philip Pullman

Writing is such a solitary existence, and I can only do it late at night.

— Paul O'Grady

The process of writing has always started for me when I put myself in a place where no one distracts me.

— Joyce Maynard