Access Quote by Joan Didion

Had my credentials been in order I would never have become a writer. Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own…

— Joan Didion

I often wonder if I had the complete freedom to not have to write, if I would write. That's the one mystery that I…

— Nick Tosches

I see no reason to stop writing. But the reason isn't always one of your own. The mind is not invulnerable, and it can…

— Robert Coover

I was a new writer and I was supposed to write all the time, wasn't I? I had not yet discovered that there are…

— Stanley Crawford

It seems like many people think that if you drive yourself crazy, then you can write. I’m absolutely not interested in that. It made…

— Kay Ryan

There was a terrible fear for me when I started writing, which was that if you'd been denied unbelievably tumultuous experience, you didn't have…

— Nathan Englander

I never thought I'd write, because I'd never written anything in my whole life.

— Linda Ronstadt

I wrote because I had to. I couldn't stop. There wasn't anything else I could do. If no one ever bought anything, anything I…

— Tennessee Williams

I had a strong desire to write and some free time.

— Francoise Sagan

Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don't think anyone could have made me do it, or prevented me from doing…

— Anonymous

The only real access that I have to my mind is when I'm writing.

— Kay Ryan

Whatever part of writing that is subconscious is a thing that no one has access to.

— Nathan Englander