Habits Quote by Gloria Steinem

“There is only one trait that marks the writer. He is always watching. It's a kind of trick of the mind and he is…

— Morley Callaghan

“I did not imagine anyone reading my rambling, ranting stories. I was writing for myself, trying to shape my life outside my terrors and…

— Dorothy Allison

“I read novels to indulge in a concentrated and directed inner activity that parallels -- and thereby tunes up, accentuates -- my own inner…

— Sven Birkerts

“I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on…

— Charles Dickens

“These are my habits and the way I spend my life: studying literature.”

— Christine de Pizan

“Life as a writer was not what I expected. I knew no other writers. I knew no writing teachers or editors. I had to…

— Lee Siegel

“Writing too was a mighty consumer of energy, besides a task one often went to with reluctance - not solely on account of its…

— Frank Sargeson

“Like reading, writing takes me to places I would otherwise never be able to go.”

— Bea Cannon

“Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences every thing twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always…

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

“Somebody is observing my writings, I know that. That's one reason why I keep reading and writing.”

— Toba Beta

“I loved the escape of writing those stories, of imagining lives that were different from my own. I had a ferocious imagination. I was…

— Roxane Gay

“The best thing about my writing is that it makes me feel alive again. If I am going to be obsessed with self, at…

— David Lloyd