Abandon Quote by Rosamunde Pilcher

Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them.

— Alan Furst

Writing can be a lonely business. But gradually your characters, or the scenes and peopl from your past, begin to rise up around you,…

— Barbara Abercrombie

Writing is a solitary business. It takes over your life. In some sense, a writer has no life of his own. Even when he’s…

— Paul Auster

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

You can write and write, but if you don't have someone who can nail that character, it's never going to live.

— Jamie Hewlett

And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily end up…

— Norton Juster

The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply.

— Will Self

Writing is a necessity and often a pleasure, but at the same time, it can be a great burden and a terrible struggle.

— Jonathan Lethem

You have to follow the logic of your characters while you're writing.

— Ryan Fleck

Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the characters you invent, and you…

— Danielle Steel

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

Since then, I have just read and read - but, that said, I suppose there is a raft of writers to whom I return…

— Penelope Lively