Effort Quote by Katherine Mansfield

It's hard to explain how much one can love writing. If people knew how happy it can make you, we would all be writing…

— Andrea Barrett

It's so much easier to write for a person in your life than to write for some imagined readership, so you write something that's…

— Jonah Peretti

Love is one of those topics that plenty of people try to write about but not enough try to do.

— Criss Jami

Writing is an act of cherishing... It is an act of love.

— Julia Cameron

The only thing that works with writing is that you care so passionately about it yourself, that you make someone else care passionately about…

— Judy Blume

The only reason to write is from love.

— Stephen Sondheim

We waste a lot of time and a lot of talent trying to write for the common reader, whom we will never meet. Instead…

— Julia Cameron

And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.

— Russell Banks

You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a…

— Doris Lessing

Writing is a way of sharing our humanity.

— William McIlvanney

As a writer, I don't think it's my responsibility to make a point. I just write and hope there's someone who'll like it.

— Tama Janowitz

So I think a writer should write what he loves, the people he relates to.

— David E. Kelley