Writing Quote by Irwin Shaw

No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.

— Irwin Shaw

Writing is a wholetime job: no professional writer can afford only to write when he feels like it.

— W. Somerset Maugham

“writers shouldn’t spend all their time doing what they don’t enjoy. Instead, they need to do what they love. They need to write.”

— Jeff Goins

“A writer's work is never done, unless he or she has no readers.”

— K. Sean Harris

“If you consider yourself a writer just write.”

— Sara Gran

“If one think he can live without writing, perhaps he should not write at all.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“A writer is always writing for someone.”

— L.L. Barkat

An author who enjoys writing may sometimes please other people by accident, but he can never pass on to any one else the zestful…

— J. E. Buckrose

“As most real writers do, he wrote because he had something to say, not because of any specific ambition to be a writer.”

— James Hilton

“Writing is a lonely process, but should not be done alone.”

— M.E. Jakobsen

“Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted and slightly savage if…

— Jessamyn West

“A writer who does not write is a deplorable thing, like an emaciated dog lost from home.”

— Wesley D. Gray