Better than you Quote by Willa Cather

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 haven't written anything in four years. I'm sort of dried up.

— Thom Gunn

I have a great many shortcomings, but writing for something on time has never bothered me.

— Andre Previn

Although I like the work I've done in the past, I like what I'm writing now even more.

— Cynthia Weil

Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.

— Rachel Cusk

Never put off writing until you are better at it.

— Gary Henderson

I've been writing forever, 20 years.

— Mat Johnson

One changes, as a writer, fairly quickly; what you wrote six months or a year ago might not sound right anymore.

— Keith Gessen

I have more ideas than I'll ever be able to write in five lifetimes.

— Rick Riordan

What I've learned is that you get better at writing by writing, and that 'youthful energy' will only get you so far.

— Lynn Coady

Writing seems to be more difficult as you move through the years.

— George Crumb

I haven't got a writer's discipline.

— Jim Broadbent