Art Quote by Peter O'Toole

I seldom know what I'm going to write when I sit down. There isn't much agony and sweat of the human spirit involved in…

— Charles Bukowski

Everything has to be clean and orderly when I sit down to write. I have candles going, and small objects that remind me of…

— Adriana Trigiani

Writing isn't about performing. Writing is like looking for treasure, so it's sort of like you're out in the field. I wouldn't wear a…

— Jack Savoretti

Writing is something warm and dependable to snuggle up to when everything else is in flux. It's a little secret that you carry with…

— Judy Delton

Writing is something that comes naturally to me, like acting.

— Divya Dutta

Writing is a way to shape out visible and invisible, in myself as well as in the world.

— Eppu Nuotio

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

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

— Ernest Hemingway

I do not go down and sit in front of the computer and make myself write; that's not my style.

— Eric Van Lustbader

Sometimes, particularly in summers in New York, I have tried to write in shorts or with no shirt on and found myself unable to…

— Alan Bennett

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

— Gloria Steinem

I write every day. Writing is a necessity - like eating.

— Mary MacLane