Behinds Quote by Pete Hamill

I'm not disciplined enough to be a writer consistently. I write when I have to.

— Vin Diesel

That's the advantage of being a writer: No matter what happens, as long as you survive it, it goes into the work.

— Alexandra Fuller

Being a writer, writing for a living, is one long persistence game. Everyone wants you to quit. Quite often, you want to quit. You…

— Kameron Hurley

To be a writer is to throw away a great deal, not to be satisfied, to type again, and then again and once more,…

— John Hersey

The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.

— Nadine Gordimer

I write easily, let's put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters take over. And they tell me what to say…

— Andrew Greeley

“Being a writer all boils down to this: It's you, in a chair, staring at a page. And you're either going to stay in…

— Alessandra Torre

You will feel discouraged; you will lose confidence in your abilities; you will be bored with the characters–and the only way to overcome these…

— John Dufresne

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

— Rod Serling

“The writer’s life requires courage, patience, empathy, openness. It requires the ability to be alone with oneself. Gentle with oneself. To be disciplined, and…

— Dani Shapiro

For writers, so much is done in isolation. It can be easy to feel detached, or to get a little lost along the way.

— Brad Listi

I haven't got a writer's discipline.

— Jim Broadbent