Dangerous Quote by Maggie O'Farrell

The great thing about being a writer is that you have a long, perhaps frighteningly long time in which to do your work.

— Julia Leigh

When writing isn't going well-then the bad thing about being a writer is that I also have the freedom and flexibility to do something…

— Margaret Haddix

The downside of being a writer is you get plenty of time to overthink your life.

— Donald Miller

It's hard work, writing, you know. Honestly, a fight every day against your own limitations. You have to squeeze books out of your brain,…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating.

— Marisha Pessl

“If you want to write you need to be able to take risks – in your life and in your writing. If you only…

— Roselle Angwin

It's very difficult, I think for most writers, to carve out the time and the kind of imaginative space to do the writing that…

— Emily Barton

I am not one of those writers that it just flows out of effortlessly. I have to sit and write and rewrite and sometimes…

— Princess Superstar

I have a hard time writing. Most writers have a hard time writing. I have a harder time than most because I'm lazier than…

— Fran Lebowitz

I never bought the excuse of not having time to write. If you really want to do it, you're either going to find those…

— Harlan Coben

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

— Julian Barnes

I love writing but don't get a huge amount of time to do it.

— Lennie James