Ducklings Quote by Haruki Murakami

Why did I become a writer? A bird's feather on my windowpane in winter and all at once there arose in my heart a…

— Rene Char

When you're a writer you no longer see things with the freshness of the normal person. There are always two figures that work inside…

— Brian Moore

Writing is like a bird-watcher watching for birds: the stories are there: you just have to train yourself to look for them.

— Barbara Mertz

Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no…

— David Bowie

Sometimes the people around you really affect what you write.

— Susan Tedeschi

When I write, I operate as a writer and a reader both - I never know what's going to happen.

— Elizabeth Berg

If you don't have a burning passion for writing, how can you expect anyone else to be moved by what you write?

— JoAnn Ross

I think I have grown impatient with just being a writer.

— Alain de Botton

I have finally realized that, you know, it's not a given that my lifespan will accommodate my writing aspirations.

— George Saunders

There has to be a certain relationship between the life and the writing style, and that is really a problem.

— Simone de Beauvoir

I write all the time but often abandon things I don't think will go anywhere. It's rare that I'll labor over writing something that…

— Robin Pecknold

So many writers live their whole lives in rooms. You can be too civilised in the environment you have around you, too oriented towards…

— Lawrence Osborne