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“In the summer, when the days were hot and your writing was good at night, you knew you could find solace in the calm…

— Joseph Kutil

“Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted and slightly savage if…

— Jessamyn West

“Writing is a lonely process, but should not be done alone.”

— M.E. Jakobsen

“We all know writing is a reclusive, lonely endeavour. It just is. But nobody writes alone.”

— Iain Reid

“There is only one way to overcome the difficulty of writing, and that is to write. Thought only becomes effective and productive at the…

— Amélie Nothomb

“I have forced myself to begin writing when I've been utterly exhausted, when I've felt my soul as thin as a playing card, when…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Never let negativity derail your journey as a writer. Use the energy for your own betterment.”

— Anonymous

“Most days, writing simply requires work-ethic, discipline, clarity, focus, time. Other days...it will demand absolutely everything of you.”

— Christy Hall

“no writing is a waste of time--no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work.”

— Brenda Ueland

“Writing has the power of permanence.”

— Bryant McGill

“All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery.”

— George Orwell

“Writing is all at once an exploration of what is, and what is not. Of the known, and the unknown. A journey into the…

— Madelaine Standing