Attention Quote by Marge Piercy

Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.

— Carlos Fuentes

“The obligation of a writer is to live out loud.”

— Émile Zola

I was recently asked what it takes to become a writer. Three things, I answered: first, one must cultivate incompetence at almost every other…

— Joseph Epstein

A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.

— Ernest Hemingway

a basic “must” for every writer: A simple solitude-physical & mental.

— Rod Serling

If an author be supposed to involve his thoughts in voluntary obscurity, and to obstruct, by unnecessary difficulties, a mind eager in the pursuit…

— Samuel Johnson

If a person chooses not to be a writer, or speaker, then (by definition) the person is choosing not to be engaged in an…

— Noam Chomsky

Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring…

— Andre Maurois

I tell aspiring writers that you have to find what you MUST write. When you find it, you will know, because the subject matter…

— Rick Riordan

Writing is the delicate, difficult, and dangerous means of succeeding in avowing the unavowable.

— Helene Cixous

A writer needs to write, period. He or she can't wait for the muse, shouldn't need peace and quiet, and isn't entitled to perfect…

— Robert J. Sawyer

Every writer's difficult journey is a movement from silence to speech. We must be intensely private and interior in order to find a voice…

— Sara Paretsky