Attempt Quote by Seamus Heaney

Many writers lay very great stress upon some definite moral purpose, at which they profess to aim their works.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.

— Dan Simmons

Writers always have confidence issues - it comes with the territory. We never know where we fit in, or what the actual value of…

— R. A. Salvatore

I think writers can get a little melodramatic sometimes about their work, and it helps me not to do that, to just say, "Well,…

— Donald Miller

Writers have the purity of their art and what they want to achieve with that, and that this purity is bound up with the…

— Chad Harbach

When writing goes painfully, when it’s hideously difficult, and one feels real despair (ah, the despair, silly as it is, is real!)–then naturally one…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I think it's always wrong of writers to make too much of the pains of their labors, because most people have much worse jobs…

— Richard Flanagan

“Writing is physical work. It’s sweaty work. You can’t just will yourself to become a good writer. You really have to work at it.”

— Will Haygood

One of the great perks of being a writer is that you can work when you're mentally capable of it, not when someone else…

— Diana Gabaldon

“Some people work for the money they can earn doing what they do. Others work because of a love of what they do. Writers…

— Daniel Kemp

If I did not have a de-stresser such as writing novels, I would lose focus at work.

— Ravi Subramanian

One of the reasons writers are never satisfied with their work is because they're always striving to do better.

— JoAnn Ross