Chickens Quote by John Updike

To write has to be related to a drive inside.

— Aleksandar Hemon

There are times when the best writing you can do is to go for a walk or drive, a long drive is ideal.

— Terry Pratchett

If you truly are going to be a writer, there must be somewhere within you the drive, the desire, to put pen to paper,…

— Kaye Dacus

One tends to write beyond what's needed

— James Schuyler

You can't be a writer if you don't write, it's just that simple.

— Nicholas Sparks

A writer has to have some kind of compulsive drive to do his work. If you don't have it, you'd better find another kind…

— John McPhee

Writing is not, alas, like riding a bicycle: it does not get easier with practice.

— Nancy Mairs

Writing is like building a bridge while you're on it. If you step forward you fall off and there's nothing in front of you.

— Jason Schwartzman

Writing is not a great profession as a lot of writers proclaim. I write because this is something I can do. Another thing—very often…

— Ha Jin

Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.

— Carlos Fuentes

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.

— Stephen King

Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole…

— E. L. Doctorow