Far Quote by Peter Morgan

I've never suffered from writer's block. I have plenty of ideas, sometimes too many. I've always had a strong imagination. If it dries up…

— J. G. Ballard

I got so discouraged, I almost stopped writing. It was my 12-year-old son who changed my mind when he said to me, "Mother, you've…

— Madeleine L'Engle

I was writing for myself, not to be published. I was writing diaries, even letters, to myself or to anyone I was angry at.…

— Katie Piper

I became much more interested in plot when I really didn't consider myself a writer anymore. When I was in an art context and…

— Vito Acconci

I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it…

— Gwendolyn Brooks

I had wanted to be a writer for a very long time, and I had started a lot of books and failed to finish…

— Leigh Bardugo

I never have [suffered writer’s block], although I’ve had books that didn’t work out. I had to stop writing them. I just abandoned them.…

— Margaret Atwood

I have suffered, like other writers, from indolence, irresolution, distaste to my work, absence of 'inspiration,' and all that: but I have also found…

— Harriet Martineau

I hate writing. I so intensely hate writing - I cannot tell you how much. The moment I am at the end of one…

— Slavoj Žižek

I'm a writer as rarely as possible, when forced by an idea too lovely to let die unwritten

— Richard Bach

I realised that I had always been writing things that other people wanted me to write and not what I really wanted to write,…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

A lot of my work comes from a place of despair or fear. I often write in order to gain some sort of control…

— Lauren Groff