Constant Quote by Leni Zumas

But a lot of writers - and I'm one of them - do tend to feel dissatisfied. It makes you a little hard to…

— Tobias Wolff

So many writers don't like to write... I like to write, and sometimes I'm afraid I like it too much, because when I get…

— Harper Lee

When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me.

— David E. Kelley

Writing is a strange and solitary activity. There are dispiriting times when you start working on the first few pages of a novel. Every…

— Patrick Modiano

Once I start work on a project, I don’t stop and I don’t slow down unless I absolutely have to. If I don’t write…

— Stephen King

...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

To be a writer is to throw away a great deal, not to be satisfied, to type again, and then again and once more,…

— John Hersey

Being a writer, writing for a living, is one long persistence game. Everyone wants you to quit. Quite often, you want to quit. You…

— Kameron Hurley

When I get into the moment of actually feeling like I want to write, to finish something, I do what I've always read authors…

— Ted Leo

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 is how you get to be a writer, incidentally: you feel somehow marginal, somehow slightly off-balance all the time.

— Kurt Vonnegut

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