Couple Quote by Elaine Equi

I don’t worry anymore about writing. There are times that I go through dry periods. I never go through a block. I’m always writing,…

— Dorianne Laux

Writing is a bit like walking into a big bookstore. It's the bookstore of your brain, and you know you're never going to read…

— Mary Jo Salter

When I'm not writing, I feel an awareness that something's missing. If I go a long time, it becomes worse. I become depressed. There's…

— Jennifer Egan

I write every day. I don't have a writing schedule. I write when I feel like it. Fortunately I feel like it all the…

— Eve Bunting

I go through long periods of time when I don't write, and I'm fine.

— Ann Patchett

I'm not a writer that writes every day. I just kind of have ideas. I jot them down when I have them, and when…

— Dee Rees

I try to write every day. I don't beat myself up about word counts, or how many hours are ticking by on the clock…

— Jonathan Lethem

I don't write as much now as I used to, but I write. The lines still come, maybe periodically, and I'll go through these…

— John Trudell

You have to keep writing. It's almost like practice, almost like tennis, that actually after a few days of not writing, first of all…

— Colm Toibin

I go through periods of not writing. Until there's something I can't find in the world that I need, so I write.

— Daphne Gottlieb

I have to make myself write, sometimes. In the space between poems, you somehow forget how to do it, where to begin. It was…

— Simon Armitage

There are times when I just can't bring myself to sit down and write and I'm never sure whether it's pure laziness or lack…

— Kate Cary