Finished product Quote by Haruki Murakami

“But she did have to do something creative, even if it was just some little thing, because she was not writing, and not writing…

— Jincy Willett

“no writing is a waste of time--no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work.”

— Brenda Ueland

“It is necessary to write, that much is clear, and to write in a way quite unlike any way which I have employed before.”

— Iris Murdoch

“Writing is more than a craft; it is a way of life. Everything you see or do becomes part of what you write.”

— H.P. Oliver

“There is no such thing as wasted writing.”

— Monica Wood

“If writing doesn't come from the heart, the time spent was a waste”

— Dustin Adrian Rhodes

The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.

— Elizabeth Bowen

“I thought about how all that mattered, in all entirety, and all I wanted, and all I could see anything being worth anything for,…

— Ariel Schrag

“Writing is a craft and needs constant practice.”

— Patricia Highsmith

“The truth, however, was that there was very little greatness. It was almost nonexistent, invisible. But you could be sure that the worst writers…

— Charles Bukowski

Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.

— Carlos Fuentes

“One of the most necessary things when you're writing? The waste basket.”

— Enkelejd Lamaj