Amount Quote by May Sarton

Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.

— Ernest Hemingway

writers don't like to write letters. Too much like work.

— Mari Sandoz

I am a driven writer. I feel guilty if I don't write, not self-indulgent if I do.

— Marge Piercy

I am sorry for people who can't write letters. But I suspect also that you and I ... love to write them because it's…

— Elizabeth Bishop

As I grow old I hate the writing of letters more and more, and like getting them better and better.

— Virginia Woolf

Letters are the real curse of my existence. I hate to write them: I have to. If I don't, there they are - the…

— Katherine Mansfield

Writing is a demanding profession and a selfish one. And because it is selfish and demanding, because it is compulsive and exacting, I didn't…

— Rod Serling

I feel a burden if I don't write.

— Amitabh Bachchan

Writing isn't a job so much as a compulsion. I've been writing since I was very young because for some strange reason, I must…

— Siri Hustvedt

“As you no doubt gathered, I do not devote the care to word selection and organization in my letters that I do in my…

— Janet Malcolm

I don't write for the money. I write because something in me is constantly compelled.

— Beth Moore

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing.

— Paul Auster