Leaving Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.

— Salman Rushdie

Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

— Sholem Asch

Actually, when I write, there is a feeling of necessity, of something that is stronger than myself that demands that I must write as…

— Jacques Derrida

Writing is a way to shape out visible and invisible, in myself as well as in the world.

— Eppu Nuotio

Writing is a way of drifting within my own mind: almost a solitary process, so to speak.

— Twinkle Khanna

Writing doesn't come easily to me. It gets more and more difficult.

— Elizabeth David

Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.

— Peter Benchley

Writing is like sex. The more you think about it, the harder it is to do. It's better not to think about it so…

— Stephen King

Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.

— Agatha Christie

Writing provides no guarantees. And writers who stay with writing do it for reasons that are larger than self.

— Jayne Anne Phillips

You have to throw yourself away when you write.

— Maxwell Perkins

I suppose half of writing is overcoming the revulsion you feel when you sit down to it.

— Flannery O'Connor