Always Quote by Kay Cannon

You just go straight for the reality of the situation. So when I sit down to write, I find myself judging it as I'm…

— Lennon Parham

There's a secret that real writers know that wannabe writers don't, and the secret is this: It's not the writing part that's hard. What's…

— Steven Pressfield

If you write something and they all tell you it is bad - editors, critics, everybody - think it over and you may become…

— Brenda Ueland

I just try and do something good. But as a writer, you're slightly out of control.

— Peter Morgan

“Being a writer is an amazing job, but we’re all writers, most of us just forget to put our stories down on paper.”

— Colette Freedman

I write what I write and I honestly don't care if it gets on or not. I'm writing to see if I can find…

— Larry Gelbart

We writers don't really think about whether what we write is good or not. It's too much to worry about. We just put the…

— Garrison Keillor

I suppose half of writing is overcoming the revulsion you feel when you sit down to it.

— Flannery O'Connor

A lot of people get writer's block, and I think you just have to show up for work, sit down, and be like, 'I'm…

— Brian Fallon

You can tell when a writer moves out of a place of struggle and into a place of comfort, and it's always a bad…

— Eleanor Catton

It's always struck me as unfair that writing has so little sensation when it's going well.

— Francis Spufford

“Being a writer all boils down to this: It's you, in a chair, staring at a page. And you're either going to stay in…

— Alessandra Torre