Needed Quote by James Schuyler

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

— Carlos Fuentes

One writes what one can, or has to, write.

— Neel Mukherjee

The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.

— John Cheever

The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice.

— Fay Weldon

Writing needs to be practiced; there is a limit to how much can be gleaned from a teacher or a manual. The true essence…

— Jasper Fforde

The more you write, the more you're capable of writing.

— Paul Theroux

You have to have some kind of clarity or understanding of what's happening to write.

— Benjamin Booker

Writing only leads to more writing.

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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

— Elizabeth Bowen

It's very hard to articulate the things that are important about writing.

— Tim O'Brien

Writing has to support itself.

— V. S. Naipaul

“Most days, writing simply requires work-ethic, discipline, clarity, focus, time. Other days...it will demand absolutely everything of you.”

— Christy Hall