Believe Quote by Steve Erickson

I don't believe in inspiration. I write when I can't avoid writing anymore.

— Aleksandar Hemon

I do increasingly feel like becoming a better writer is about trying to find new ways to solve the same problems over and over…

— Mike Young

How I became a better writer was that I kept writing.

— Sallie Tisdale

I may not have become a good writer, but I managed to make a living out of writing.

— Ruskin Bond

Writing, for me at least, takes a lot of concentrated work and effort. It takes dedication and the willingness to do the work even…

— Karl Iagnemma

But I work harder now because I have so much more exposure. And actually the harder you work as a writer, the better you…

— Ron White

I'm a better writer now because I've worked very hard at getting better. My long-range goal will always be to write better books.

— George Pelecanos

I've described my usual writing process as scrambling from peak to peak on inspiration through foggy valleys of despised logic. Inspiration is better when…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.

— Randy Owen

if you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be…

— Sarah Orne Jewett

I know so many writers who are a hundred times better than me and have longer, greater ideas than mine, but they gave up;…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I think every writer has their waves of inspiration and their ways of doing things. But writing is very difficult for me. It's something…

— Chath Piersath