Aspect Quote by John Dos Passos

A professional writer is someone who writes just as well when they're not inspired as when they are.

— Philip Pullman

Writers were never meant to be professionals. Writing is not a profession, it is an activity, an essentially amateur occupation. It is what you…

— Fay Weldon

Here's the bottom line; writers write. Sometimes words flow easily. Sometimes it's like sloughing through mud. Either way a professional writer keeps writing.

— P. C. Cast

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume…

— Ernest Hemingway

Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring…

— Andre Maurois

Writing is the act of discovery.

— Natalie Goldberg

Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.

— Edward Albee

Writing is the great invention of the world.

— Abraham Lincoln

Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.

— V. S. Naipaul

Writing is an incessant process of discovery.

— Robert Hass

A professional writer is a joke. You write because you can't do anything else, and then you have another job.

— Jamaica Kincaid

Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now use only four-letter words Writing prose - Anything goes

— Cole Porter