Almost perfect Quote by Gene Wolfe

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I don't know about other writers, but for myself, to write I must be relatively quiet - it's very difficult to write with the…

— Ray Charles

The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.

— Randy Wayne White

I try to treat writing as part of my daily routine: I write for at least two hours, five days per week. I tend…

— Jesmyn Ward

Writing makes no noise, except groans, and it can be done everywhere, and it is done alone.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole…

— E. L. Doctorow

I write mostly in my office in the shed outside at home, but it can get very cold. I write best on the train,…

— Dermot Healy

It wasn't that I couldn't write. I wrote every day. I actually worked really hard at writing. At my desk by 7 A.M., would…

— Junot Diaz

Writing is a solitary activity, it requires isolation and silence.

— Dacia Maraini

Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a few words.

— Norman Mailer

You can sit and write in your room all you want, but until other people see it, until you see it produced for television…

— Ed Brubaker

Writing is a combination of being alert to your outer surroundings and alive to your inner reality.

— Julia Cameron