Back to work Quote by Glenn Frey

Like everyone else, there are days when I don't want to go to work. However, writing is a job like anything else.

— Francine Rivers

I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.

— Barbara Mertz

There were times when depression, anxiety, whatever, would keep me from writing. I still get depressed and anxious, but I just don't let it…

— David St. John

I sometimes think about writing just to keep my mind active when I'm not working, but I don't think I would be good enough.

— Ruby Bentall

What I tend to do is I try and get as much writing done... I get as much writing done at home before I…

— John O'Keefe

Writing is a strange and solitary activity. There are dispiriting times when you start working on the first few pages of a novel. Every…

— Patrick Modiano

When writing goes painfully, when it’s hideously difficult, and one feels real despair (ah, the despair, silly as it is, is real!)–then naturally one…

— Joyce Carol Oates

If you're a writer, you're always working.

— Alan Furst

How can you stop writing?

— Tony Hillerman

I'm always writing, always working.

— James Acaster

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

— Gloria Steinem

Even when I am writing I usually take a break around lunchtime and go for a little walk to clear out my head.

— Patricia Cornwell