Baseball Quote by Robert Frost

I'd always been really intimidated by prose writing.

— David Rees

I'm not as good a prose writer as I'd like to be, but I never aspired to that.

— Mark Waid

I never thought about being a writer as I grew up. A writer wasn't something I wanted to be. An outfielder was something to…

— John Sayles

The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn't…

— Edward Albee

Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.

— Tracy Kidder

I think, for any writer, when you write, you just write.

— David Farr

I'm not proselytizing my method. I don't believe that one writer should tell other writers how to write.

— John Irving

One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position…

— E. L. Doctorow

When anybody tells you something about writing, somebody will tell you something completely different and they will also be right

— Melvyn Bragg

I am not a writer except when I write.

— Juan Carlos Onetti

I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.

— Anne Enright

“Writing is like baseball: you fail two-thirds of the time.”

— Phillip Roth