Energy Quote by Doris Lessing

I think I've only spent about ten percent of my energies on writing. The other ninety percent went to keeping my head above water.

— Katherine Anne Porter

Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.

— Marilyn Hacker

I have enough energy to write with and as that is all I have any business doing anyhow, I can with one eye squinted…

— Flannery O'Connor

I don't have the freaking energy to write a memo. I'm out there saving lives.

— Carmen Yulin Cruz

I can't speak in too much detail about a book or story I'm working on because I find that it takes the energy out…

— David B. Coe

The last couple of years have been a write-off, though I'm beginning to feel like a person now. My energy is coming back.

— Maggie Smith

I am a person of high energy. That, and I sit down and I write when I get an idea - I put other…

— John Darnielle

My energies get used up quite quickly, and the psychic space I'm in when I write is a very lonely one, so I found…

— Michel Faber

I have lots of energy.

— Julia Sweeney

I'm using more energy than ever.

— Raphael Saadiq

What I've learned is that you get better at writing by writing, and that 'youthful energy' will only get you so far.

— Lynn Coady

I'm widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I'm not sure I can finish, generating at the edge of…

— Barbara Kingsolver