Attention Quote by George Saunders

I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.

— William Saroyan

At the risk, then, of being shunned by some of my gloomier peers, I venture to tell you that writers work like demons, suffer…

— Michael Cunningham

I do less of that stuff now because I figured out that when I was writing things I didn't care about, it made me…

— Tod Goldberg

The joy for me as a writer is that, despite the fact I spend most of my life on my own in a room…

— Abi Morgan

If I'm happy and joyous, which I have been a lot in my life, thankfully, I'm usually not at the piano writing about it.

— Beth Hart

There's a happiness that comes from writing that I won't live without.

— Maria Semple

A writer's life suits me. It's fairly, well, other people might think it was actually rather dull, but that's fine because I feel that…

— Ronald Frame

I'm never more miserable than when I write, and never more happy than having finished and having it sitting in front of me.

— Cary Fukunaga

People say you make your best work when you're in despair and all that, and at your lowest - but for me, I think…

— Paul Weller

I've always wanted to be a writer. Always been very creative. I always laughed at things that the rest of my family would sort…

— Bonnie McFarlane

In everything I write, I'm always striving to hit the right mix of light and darkness, humor and pain, fun and seriousness.

— Greg van Eekhout

The reason I became a writer is because I like sitting in dark rooms by myself, not standing on stage and talking to people.

— Cord Jefferson