Feel Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

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

— Flannery O'Connor

As a writer you sometimes feel the need to shake things up.

— George Meyer

The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.

— Nadine Gordimer

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

— Peter Morgan

I am not a writer except when I write.

— Juan Carlos Onetti

For writers, so much is done in isolation. It can be easy to feel detached, or to get a little lost along the way.

— Brad Listi

That's the advantage of being a writer: No matter what happens, as long as you survive it, it goes into the work.

— Alexandra Fuller

Part of being a writer is just getting it in your bones, getting the muscle memory down, just doing it.

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

I'm not fundamentally a writer. I know writers, and I have a tremendous amount of respect for them. It bothers me that no matter…

— Marc Maron

There's a half-conscious state you enter when you're actually generating prose, and you are simply a better writer in that place. In fact it's…

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

...One reason I became a writer was that I figured out that if you call yourself a writer, you can read all you want…

— Katherine Paterson

It's easy, after all, not to be a writer. Most people aren't writers, and very little harm comes to them.

— Julian Barnes