Age Quote by Thomas Jefferson

I go through long periods of time when I don't write, and I'm fine.

— Ann Patchett

When things are going well, I can't write fast enough to keep up with my mind. Writing walks, speech runs and talk flies. Other…

— Dylan Moran

I only can write a book every two years, you know. And I write very fast, but I'm not always writing every day. I…

— Paulo Coelho

I started writing one afternoon when I was twenty, and ever since then I have written every day. At first I had to force…

— David Sedaris

When I'm writing, my neural pathways get blocked. I can't read. I can barely hold a conversation without forgetting words and names. I wish…

— Kate Atkinson

Once I got my life sorted and started to get healthy, then I was able to focus on writing.

— Mary Gauthier

I write in spurts. I write when I have to because the pressure builds up and I feel enough confidence that something has matured…

— Susan Sontag

I mean, what would I be doing if I couldn't write? But that fortunately hasn't proved to be the case and I can read…

— Christopher Hitchens

I am compulsive about writing, I need to do it the way I need sleep and exercise and food and sex; I can go…

— John Irving

I started writing in fourth grade and never stopped. I faked my way through high school and nearly was flushed from college - I…

— W. Bruce Cameron

I am at the point of my life where I am realizing that I cannot write about the same shit forever. I just can't.…

— Needa Muy

I have forced myself to begin writing when I've been utterly exhausted, when I've felt my soul as thin as a playing card…and somehow…

— Joyce Carol Oates