Brain Quote by Elizabeth Berg

The important thing is to write when your brain is at its best. Work edits or do outside reading with the rest of the…

— Douglas Brunt

Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a few words.

— Norman Mailer

Do you want to do this thing? Sit down and do it. Are you not writing? Keep sitting there. Does it not feel right?…

— Ann Patchett

The first thing you have to know about writing is that it is something you must do everyday. There are two reasons for this…

— Walter Mosley

Writing can be a very isolating profession. By its very nature, you spend a lot of your time barricaded in your house or office,…

— D. B. Weiss

install me in any profession Save this damn'd profession of writing, where one needs one's brains all the time.

— Ezra Pound

First of all you are a writer, a writer is what you are, so it doesn't actually stop the moment you leave your desk,…

— Terry Pratchett

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

— Joyce Maynard

Writing is a very lonely occupation. To write you need to concentrate, to concentrate you need to lock yourself away. No distractions; you want…

— Vikas Swarup

Sometimes to write you need to do more than just appear at your desk-you need to take care of the part of you that…

— Barbara Abercrombie

Get yourself a notebook and write in it EVERY night for two weeks. Then stop if you can. If you can't, you're a writer.

— Charles Ghigna

My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding.

— Amy Bloom