Cows Quote by Joan Aiken

A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.

— E. B. White

Part of being a writer is just getting it in your bones, getting the muscle memory down, just doing it.

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

Writers are diffident creatures -- they need encouragement.

— Agatha Christie

Writing is a muscle that needs to be exercised.

— Nikki Grimes

Writing is a muscle that needs to be exercised every day: The more you write, the easier it becomes.

— Jane Green

Writers aren't born, they're made - from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine.

— Alexander Chee

Most writers flourish greatly on a simple, healthy routine with occasional time off for gaiety.

— Dorothea Brande

Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers…

— Jane Yolen

“Writers aren't born, they're made--from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine. And sometimes tutelage.”

— Alexander Chee

“Who knows why we do it? And when we've done it, nobody wants it. Still we keep doing it. That's what makes a writer…

— Chloe Thurlow

Writing does for me what giving milk does for a cow.

— H. L. Mencken

Writers don’t care what they eat. They just care what you think of them

— Louise Fitzhugh