Art Quote by Stuart Dybek

“If you're a writer you're bound to write something fine, at least now and then, off and on.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

“We must remember that what a writer does to people is not necessarily what he intends to do. It may be only what people…

— T.S. Eliot

“I have so little control over the act of writing that it's all I can do to remain conscious. Actual formal considerations are almost…

— David Rakoff

“Writers, to my way of thinking, are no more free in their choices than most people. Our material chooses us; certain things engage us,…

— Tobias Wolff

“Who knows why we do it? And when we've done it, nobody wants it. Still we keep doing it. That's what makes a writer…

— Chloe Thurlow

“Being a writer guarantees that you will spend too much time alone -- and that as a result, your mind will begin to warp.”

— Anne Lamott

“Your whole duty as a writer is to please and satisfy yourself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.”

— Anonymous

“The best thing about a being a writer is the creative process. I often describe it as a beautiful headache that I wouldn't change…

— Nicole Huggins

“When you are a writer, you can daydream all day and yet claim that you're working.”

— Dodong Charing

“Writers don’t get time off. Every moment - waking or sleeping - a writer is working, observing, thinking and creating.”

— Graeme Roberts

“Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing anything else.”

— Gloria Steinem

“That's the worst aspect of being a writer: managing plausibility.”

— Chuck Palahniuk