Catch me Quote by James Thurber

Sometimes I don't write at all. Someone once asked me, "What do you do when you're not writing?" And I said, "I idle."

— Aleksandar Hemon

After all, most writing is done away from the typewriter, away from the desk. I'd say it occurs in the quiet, silent moments, while…

— Henry Miller

I am not a writer except when I write.

— Juan Carlos Onetti

Sometimes I write, but once it's done, I usually find my writing to be so bad that I hide it somewhere and never look…

— Gideon Glick

I go through periods of not writing. Until there's something I can't find in the world that I need, so I write.

— Daphne Gottlieb

I'm writing all the time, I never stopped writing.

— Adrian Dunbar

I'm always writing. There's no stopping. It's just that you can't see it sometimes.

— Tanya Saracho

When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.

— Salman Rushdie

I sometimes don't know what I'm writing when I start writing it, on some level.

— Josh Radnor

I write in longhand. I am accustomed to that proximity, that feel of writing. Then I sit down and type.

— James Salter

Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.

— Gene Fowler

Writing is like building a bridge while you're on it. If you step forward you fall off and there's nothing in front of you.

— Jason Schwartzman