Dies Quote by Richard Bach

I write all the time but often abandon things I don't think will go anywhere. It's rare that I'll labor over writing something that…

— Robin Pecknold

Really, in the end, the only thing that can make you a writer is the person that you are, the intensity of your feeling,…

— Santha Rama Rau

Sometimes I would write while inspired and sometimes I would write through sheer force of will, and in revision the writing that I thought…

— Jesse Michaels

I just try and do something good. But as a writer, you're slightly out of control.

— Peter Morgan

Writing is a cop-out. An excuse to live perpetually in fantasy land, where you can create, direct and watch the products of your own…

— Monica Dickens

If you want to be a writer in the world you really have to sit down and say, 'Why do I want to do…

— Dorianne Laux

To be a writer, a creative person, you must retain your ability to react uniquely. Your feelings must remain your own. The day you…

— Dwight V. Swain

If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.

— Neil Gaiman

What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able to write... Maybe the…

— Paul Di Filippo

I do not enjoy writing at all. If I can turn my back on an idea, out there in the dark, if I can…

— Richard Bach

For so long, we had to write to pay a bill, we had to write in many instances where maybe you weren't even inspired…

— Joe Budden

“To be a decent writer you must have both empathy and imagination. While these attributes aid your art, they can plague your soul. You…

— M.J. Rose