Burning Quote by JoAnn Ross

Writing is a solitary business. It takes over your life. In some sense, a writer has no life of his own. Even when he’s…

— Paul Auster

It's so easy, as a writer, to get stuck in your own head, to live in the little worlds you create. To forget that…

— Celeste Ng

So many writers live their whole lives in rooms. You can be too civilised in the environment you have around you, too oriented towards…

— Lawrence Osborne

Writing is like travelling. It's wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying.

— Langston Hughes

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

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

So much of writing is fed by vanity and the feeling that what you are doing is the most important thing in the world…

— Pankaj Mishra

Writing isn't a job so much as a compulsion. I've been writing since I was very young because for some strange reason, I must…

— Siri Hustvedt

I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly…

— Robert Morgan

When I write, I write for myself, and I have high expectations... so I'm just trying to meet those. I'm not going to distract…

— Hannah Kent

Sometimes the people around you really affect what you write.

— Susan Tedeschi

I write all the time but often abandon things I don't think will go anywhere. It's rare that I'll labor over writing something that…

— Robin Pecknold