Challenges Quote by Rebecca Wells

My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.

— Ernest Hemingway

Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered. It takes it out of you. It's very psychically wearing not to write…

— Fran Lebowitz

You need to keep something for yourself. As a writer, I feel that even more strongly. I feel like I need to be able…

— Tracy Chapman

I'm a very low-maintenance person.

— Austin Reaves

I don't think I began to be a professional writer until I learned my weaknesses and what I couldn't do. This forced me to…

— Robert Cormier

For myself, I keep writing. I've got to do something. I can't sit on my hands and do nothing.

— Angus Young

When things are going well, I can't write fast enough to keep up with my mind. Writing walks, speech runs and talk flies. Other…

— Dylan Moran

I go through long periods of time when I don't write, and I'm fine.

— Ann Patchett

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

— Vin Diesel

I go through periods of not writing. Until there's something I can't find in the world that I need, so I write.

— Daphne Gottlieb

I have forced myself to begin writing when I've been utterly exhausted, when I've felt my soul as thin as a playing card…and somehow…

— Joyce Carol Oates