Discipline Quote by Peter Hedges

A writer never finds the time to write. A writer makes it. If you don't have the drive, the discipline, and the desire, then…

— Nora Roberts

I think the ultimate thing in some ways for any writer is to work on a character who's going to have a life for…

— Peter Gould

The great thing about being a writer is that you have a long, perhaps frighteningly long time in which to do your work.

— Julia Leigh

You have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

— Doris Lessing

Everyone thinks they can be a writer. Most people don't understand what's involved. The real writers persevere. The ones that don't either don't have…

— Peter McWilliams

So, you know, I think any life has in it enough material, enough points of departure, to fuel a writer's career and that we…

— John Updike

I feel a passion for what we're trying to do.I mean, why does somebody who's old who's a writer keep writing? Because that's who…

— Charles Koch

Everyone thinks they can be a writer. Most people dont understand whats involved. The real writers persevere. The ones that dont either dont have…

— Peter McWilliams

One has to live a life that creates a writer.

— Erno Paasilinna

One of the wonderful things about being a writer is that you're constantly dredging up some arcane knowledge or long-forgotten experience, rediscovering old passions…

— Christina Baker Kline

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

When you're a writer, you have to have the passion and the skill and the craft. It's not just enough to have the passion.…

— Harlan Ellison