Beginning Quote by Steven Knight

So many writers live their whole lives in rooms. You can be too civilised in the environment you have around you, too oriented towards…

— Lawrence Osborne

I am not one of those writers that it just flows out of effortlessly. I have to sit and write and rewrite and sometimes…

— Princess Superstar

I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer.

— Patricia Clarkson

I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.

— Mackenzie Crook

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

“Being a writer all boils down to this: It's you, in a chair, staring at a page. And you're either going to stay in…

— Alessandra Torre

I envy certain writers, because there are writers who do go into a kind of different zone, where the writing isn't controlled anymore.

— Errol Morris

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

— Joseph Heller

For any writers at all, read everything you can and then put your butt in the chair and write. That's all there is to…

— Charlaine Harris

The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.

— Randy Wayne White

I don't know about other writers, but for myself, to write I must be relatively quiet - it's very difficult to write with the…

— Ray Charles

If you don't have a burning passion for writing, how can you expect anyone else to be moved by what you write?

— JoAnn Ross