Honest Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

Most people who are writers go through periods when they can't write.

— Joyce Carol Oates

There's not much to be said about the period except that most writers don't reach it soon enough.

— William Zinsser

My girlfriend said, I hate it when you finish my sentences. So I said, Period.

— Nikhil Saluja

Writers don't have to keep themselves honest. They have to keep themselves accurate.

— John Metcalf

All writers have periods when they stop writing, when they cannot write, and this is always painful and terrible because writing is like breathing.

— Audre Lorde

You don't get many periods in your life when it all goes your way.

— Jim Kerr

A writer has to true to him or herself. Period. That’s it!

— Jhumpa Lahiri

Too much is written by the men who can't write about the men who do write.

— Jack London

Most period drama is so earnest. A lot of it is about making yourself take seriously things you wouldn't normally.

— Joe Thomas

The true writer must write not the acceptable but the true.

— David Mamet

“Women writers make for rewarding (and efficient) lovers. They are clever liars to fathers and husbands; yet they never hold their tongues too long,…

— Roman Payne

“Never trust a man who writes more than he reads.”

— Samuel Johnson