Conditions Quote by George Eliot

I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.

— Robert Harris

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

I don't have the courage not to write all the time.

— Alice Mattison

I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly…

— Robert Morgan

I'm not much of a correspondent. My letters are not only uninteresting but sparse. I'm glad I don?t have to write for a living.…

— Groucho Marx

Whether or not you write well, write bravely.

— Bill Stout

I prefer my writing to do all the talking for me.

— Peter Morgan

I am a very personal writer. I write direct to the reader. I don't hold back.

— Ruskin Bond

For me, as a writer, I desperately want to be read. I'm very conscious of readers as I'm writing. I think, 'If you write…

— Matt Haig

The marvellous thing about writing, whether it be fiction or journalism, is that it is simultaneously the most intimate and the most anonymous of…

— Will Self

If you feel yourself to be a full member in the world, you probably won't turn to writing, because other methods of communication, more…

— Margot Livesey

As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez