Acquire Quote by Jimmy Buffett

To make your life being a writer, it's an auto-slavery ... you are both the slave and the task-master.

— Susan Sontag

You sit down in the morning on your own to write something. You get to the end of the day and it's not like…

— Dan Mazer

Writing isn't manual labor. Nor is it emptying the dishwasher or paying bills. It's work, sure, but sometimes it should be fun.

— Rebecca Serle

What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?

— Rachel Cusk

“Writing is a manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.”

— John Gregory Dunne

There were points in my career where I thought, 'Maybe I'm done. Maybe I've written everything there is to write.' Now I've learned that…

— Sylvia Day

Writing is this odd act, right? To sit and type, or write by hand, or whatever people do. And it requires a real discipline…

— Noah Hawley

The writer is one who, embarking upon a task, does not know what to do... Writing is a process of dealing with not-knowing, a…

— Donald Barthelme

Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but I think…

— Harper Lee

When I'm supposed to be writing I clean my apartment, take my clothes to the laundry, get organized, make lists, do the dishes. I…

— Fran Lebowitz

At the end of the day, I think the only way to do the kind of job a writer does is push everything aside…

— Marc Guggenheim

“I always wanted to be a writer, and I always wrote something – stories, poetry, articles, newsletters, letters. Most writers can't help themselves! It's…

— Marina Oliver