Advice Quote by Enrique Vila-Matas

For several decades, I believed it was necessary to be extraordinary if you wanted to write, and since I wasn't, I gave up my…

— Diane Setterfield

The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I…

— Eric Brown

I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o'clock every day.

— William Faulkner

I thought of myself as a writer for years before I got around to writing anything.

— E. L. Doctorow

I suppose if I didn't write for a living and it couldn't be published, I would have wanted to write anyway. I think there's…

— Decca Aitkenhead

I can't really write unless I'm full of inspiration. And even then I can't write unless I have some alone time.

— Brett Dennen

I always wanted to write. But honestly I'm glad I didn't do it back when I was twenty-five or so, when it's now clear…

— Chris Pavone

My father really taught me that you really develop the habit of writing and you sit down at the same time every day, you…

— Anne Lamott

I can't explain inspiration. A writer is either compelled to write or not. And if I waited for inspiration I wouldn't really be a…

— Toni Morrison

I have never believed that one should wait until one is inspired because I think the pleasures of not writing are so great that…

— John Updike

I had a strong desire to write and some free time.

— Francoise Sagan

The two years I spent solely writing for other people kind of took me away from myself.

— LP