Contemplating Quote by John Steinbeck

I keep telling myself I should try very hard to write a novel of about 210 pages... I don't seem to be capable of…

— Elizabeth Kostova

The only failure in writing is when you stop doing it. Then you fail yourself.

— Natalie Goldberg

One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I tell myself that I'm going to do my five or 10…

— Lawrence Block

I try to write 1,000 words a day - about three pages. When I reach 1,000 words I feel good. Less than that: a…

— Tracy Chevalier

Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three.

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get out of…

— Leo Tolstoy

Write 1000 words a day. That's only about four pages, but force yourself to do it. Put your finger down your throat and throw…

— Ray Bradbury

Paradoxically, the only thing that helps when I'm feeling despairing about writing is to write.

— Laura van den Berg

I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

There's a point at which writing a book, or a long article, begins to feel like mental labor, and it's too painful to connect…

— Alexandra Fuller

“For days and weeks on end one racks one's brains to no avail, and, if asked, one could not say whether one goes on…

— W.G. Sebald

I routinely oscillate between exultation and despair. Maybe at the end of the day I feel pretty good about what I've written, but the…

— Barbara Ehrenreich