Done Quote by Janet Malcolm

If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.

— Hugh Prather

“If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire is not to write”

— Hugh Prather

“Writing is a compulsion”

— Airambooksie

“I cannot write myself. What, after all, is this "I" who would write himself? Even as he would enter into the writing, the writing…

— Roland Barthes

When one wants to write, one writes. If one is condemned to write, one writes.

— Julio Cortazar

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

— Carlos Fuentes

The act of writing bears something in common with the act of love. The writer, at his most productive moments, just flows. He gives…

— Sidney Jourard

“Writing, when all is said and done, is an attempt to understand one's own circumstance and to clarify the confusion of existence, including insecurities…

— Isabel Allende

If you have that unconquerable urge to write, nothing will stop you from writing.

— Theodore Dreiser

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

— M.E. Jakobsen

The desire to write well can never be fulfilled without hard work.

— Dean Koontz

“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