Regularity Quote by Jennifer Egan

You cannot write well or much (and I venture the opinion that you cannot write well unless you write much) unless you form a…

— W. Somerset Maugham

People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing.

— William Trevor

I'm basically always writing. Why wouldn't I? I love it.

— Kelsea Ballerini

Why do I write? I guess that's been asked of every writer. I don't know. It isn't any massive compulsion.

— Rod Serling

You have to write badly in order to write well.

— William Faulkner

I don't really write beautifully naturally, unlike some people.

— George Saunders

I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.

— Cormac McCarthy

We're [writers] all afraid of writing badly, and there are psychological reasons, like the bad interior of ourselves is somehow being revealed, but we…

— Jennifer Egan

Writing is one of the few activities where quantity will inevitably make quality. The more you write, the better you're going to get at…

— Harlan Coben

Why are some things easier to write than say?

— Ally Condie

“You don't need special traits, special genes, or special motivation to write a lot. You don't need to want to write--people rarely feel like…

— Paul J. Silvia

The first thing you have to know about writing is that it is something you must do everyday. There are two reasons for this…

— Walter Mosley