Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

I'm always telling my students go to law school or become a doctor, do something, and then write. First of all you should have…

— Jamaica Kincaid

I'm a person who, when I set out to write, I write. It's just like when you set out to eat, you eat, or…

— Juan Gabriel

When you sit down to write, write. Don't do anything else except go to the bathroom, and only do that if it absolutely cannot…

— Stephen King

Just write a little bit every day. Even if it's for only half an hour — write, write, write.

— Madeleine L'Engle

“Write it. Just write it. Write it on receipts in the car while you wait for your kid to finish their piano lessons, scribble…

— Melodie Ramone

If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write. If you stop, start again. Save everything that you write. If…

— Anne Rice

“I always tell myself, 'you can write anything, but first you have to write something'.”

— Kevan Duke

Write: write letters. Keep journals. Besides your children, there is no surer way of achieving immortality.

— Ken Burns

Mostly you write to find out what you have to say.

— Richard Bausch

I didn't write because I had anything to say, but in order to find out what there was to say.

— Eugene H. Peterson

I would love to just write and not have everything I say or do turn into a political battle.

— N. K. Jemisin

I am lucky enough to have Aaron Sorkin write what I have to say.

— Allison Janney

Every time you write something, you say much more than you think you say.

— Vikrant Parsai

Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could…

— Andre Gide

I write when I have something to say and not when I don't. My time is better spent if I know I have nothing…

— Peter Orner