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You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing:…

— Frank Herbert

What I tend to do is I try and get as much writing done... I get as much writing done at home before I…

— John O'Keefe

I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get out of…

— Leo Tolstoy

I am always writing no matter what I am doing and no matter what it is for.

— Margaret Cho

My idea of writing is of unflinching and continual effort, somehow trying to find the right words until you reach a point where you…

— James Salter

I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do…

— Barbara Taylor Bradford

There isn't a single day I don't do some writing -- if you don't, you won't have a book. When you're self-employed it is…

— Charles de Lint

Sit down every day and DO IT. Writing is a self-taught craft; the more you work at it, the more skilled you become. And…

— Lois Duncan

I sometimes think about writing just to keep my mind active when I'm not working, but I don't think I would be good enough.

— Ruby Bentall

There were points in my career where I thought, 'Maybe I'm done. Maybe I've written everything there is to write.' Now I've learned that…

— Sylvia Day

My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding.

— Amy Bloom

My entire life has been centered around my writing, and by that I mean finding the time to write.

— Jillian Medoff