Down and Quote by Natalie Goldberg

In the end, you have to just sit down, shut up, and write.

— Natalie Goldberg

I don't have the patience to sit and write.

— Jesse Ventura

One writes what one can, or has to, write.

— Neel Mukherjee

Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a few words.

— Norman Mailer

Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it, putting words on paper that have never been there in…

— William Goldman

I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain.

— Mose Allison

The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.

— Randy Wayne White

Some days, you will sit down, and you write tens of thousands of words. Others, you have to force yourself to write a single…

— Sylvia Day

Write even when the world is chaotic. You don’t need a cigarette, silence, music, a comfortable chair, or inner peace to write. You just…

— Cory Doctorow

You can't live and write at the same time.

— Alison Bechdel

If I have a writing problem, the minute I step away, there's a solution.

— Megan Abbott

Writing doesn't come easily to me. It gets more and more difficult.

— Elizabeth David