Children Quote by Margaret Mahy

I, personally, have found reading a continual support to writing.

— Margaret Mahy

I was 37 years old. I wanted to support myself by writing.

— Judith Rossner

If someone asked for my recipe for happiness, step one would be finding out what you love most in the world and step two…

— J. K. Rowling

My music's like waiting for a bus. You wait a long time for one, then a whole heap of them come along.

— Roisin Murphy

If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the 'right' thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It's…

— Robert Kiyosaki

Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor.…

— Stephen Dunn

There's less skill and more plain hard work to writing than anyone except a writer thinks.

— Mabel Seeley

writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all

— Charles Bukowski

If you do everything in your power to avoid writing and still can't, then you must be a writer.

— Fannie Flagg

When you are not writing, you are a writer too. It doesn't leave you.

— Natalie Goldberg

My best experience as a writer was working with Michael Ondaatje. He let me dismantle his novel, reimagine it, and still had dinner with…

— Anthony

Writing happened to me. I didn't decide to start writing or to be a writer. I never wanted to be a writer.

— Robert Gottlieb