Attitude Quote by Gerald Brenan

“It is by sitting down to write every morning that one becomes a writer.”

— Gerald Brenan

There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer…

— Mignon McLaughlin

Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out the window, teasing my hair, sitting down to write, writing nothing,…

— Charles Dickens

There's a secret that real writers know that wannabe writers don't, and the secret is this: It's not the writing part that's hard. What's…

— Steven Pressfield

There is absolutely no point in sitting down to write a book unless you feel that you must write that book, or else go…

— Robertson Davies

Everything I know about life I learned from the daily practice of sitting down to write.

— Dani Shapiro

There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, "Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic worth." It's…

— Douglas Adams

Even if you don't feel like sitting down to write or working on that big proposal, or whatever it is, just show up anyhow…

— Ayana Mathis

It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write.

— Steven Pressfield

I hear that 5 o'clock whistle in my mind like Fred Flintstone and I have to stop. I'm also not much of a morning…

— Diablo Cody

I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.

— Naguib Mahfouz

I am a morning writer; I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty, when I go for a…

— Carlos Fuentes