Cent Quote by Richard Herring

Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.

— Louise Brooks

“Writing is 10% inspiration,90% perspiration and 50% procrastination.”

— Lucky Stevens

“People think writers are always feeling inspired. That's only about 5% of it. 95% is the daily discipline to just sit and write.”

— Bruce Van Horn

Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.

— Roald Dahl

I mean, if you lined up 100 writers, you'd get 100 different ways in which they write. There's no right way or wrong way…

— Eric Van Lustbader

The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.

— Elizabeth Bowen

People often say that writing is ten percent inspiration and ninety percent perspiration. This is nonsense, of course. It's pretty much one hundred percent…

— Caprice Crane

If you're writing, you're a writer. If you're talking about it or thinking about it, I'm not so sure. Writing is ninety-eight percent work…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Writing is 1% inspiration, 99% not getting distracted by the internet.

— Anonymous

“It has been often said that writing is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration. In my experience, this is true. But, in my…

— Robert Fanney

One writes what one can, or has to, write.

— Neel Mukherjee

Writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

— Don DeLillo