Actual Quote by Tom Stoppard

You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough.

— Haruki Murakami

What I love is the writing, it's not having written. I like the process of it.

— Michael Koryta

Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.

— Carlos Fuentes

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

— Thomas Berger

I'm not one of those true writers who can't bear not to be writing. Yet it's one of the most important things in my…

— Robyn Davidson

What I feel is there are certain demands that you have to satisfy in any piece of writing. When it's just for me, it's…

— Hilton Als

Once the initial excitement wears off and it's time to sit down to write, the authors are usually still very eager, but the reality…

— Deborah Reber

You know how sometimes you meet writers that are so full of themselves? They feel really proud that they wrote something . But what…

— Sandra Cisneros

I tell aspiring writers that you have to find what you MUST write. When you find it, you will know, because the subject matter…

— Rick Riordan

So much of writing is fed by vanity and the feeling that what you are doing is the most important thing in the world…

— Pankaj Mishra

Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it.

— Don Roff

Many writers are afraid of writing something bad, so they don't try or give up when their efforts don't lead to a masterpiece right…

— Lauren Tarshis