Blessing Quote by Flannery O'Connor

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

I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.

— Karen Thompson Walker

I haven't got the energy to write now.

— Doris Lessing

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

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

When I write, my brain moves faster than my hands so I'm always trying to picture things.

— John Lydon

My eyes glaze over at a writer solving tiny problems.

— Doris Grumbach

I'm almost back to being able to write as much as six hours a day .

— Justine Larbalestier

I sometimes think about writing just to keep my mind active when I'm not working, but I don't think I would be good enough.

— Ruby Bentall

When I am writing, I try to do it five hours a day but I spend about two of those just fooling around.

— Truman Capote

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

— Eppu Nuotio