Guarantees Quote by Jayne Anne Phillips

To write requires an ego, a belief that what you say matters. Writing also requires an aching curiosity leading you to discover, uncover, what…

— Terry Tempest Williams

Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Writing only leads to more writing.

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

You know how sometimes you meet writers that are so full of themselves? They feel really proud that they wrote something . But what…

— Sandra Cisneros

You can't be a writer if you don't write, it's just that simple.

— Nicholas Sparks

I've always subscribed to the notion that a writer always has something else to say, and the more you write, the more you have…

— Kate Christensen

Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff…

— David Sedaris

Being a writer is not the point. Writing is.

— Mohsin Hamid

Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

— Carlos Fuentes

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

— Salman Rushdie

I think, for any writer, when you write, you just write.

— David Farr