Annoyed Quote by William Zinsser

You have to relax, write what you write. It sounds easy but it's really, really hard. One of the things it took me longest…

— Diane Setterfield

The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you've struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.

— Virginia Woolf

You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or despair ... Come to it any way but lightly.

— Stephen King

I may be writing well, I may be writing poorly, but I enjoy the act of writing and sometimes when it turns out okay,…

— James Lipton

Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.

— Agatha Christie

“You say you're a writer but you're depressed. Not an excuse; write from there. Write some depressing sh*t. Believe me. You will have plenty…

— Stanley Christopher

...for the first time in my life, writing was hard. The problem was the teaching...by most Friday afternoons I felt as if I'd spent…

— Stephen King

Sometimes I write well when I'm very upset.

— Alice Mattison

My first feeling was that there was no way to continue. Writing isn't like math;in math, two plus two always equals four no matter…

— Stephenie Meyer

“The skill of writing needs much patience, practicing, and time. There is no good writing from a quick effort, or a confused writer.”

— Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi

I'm very unhappy when I'm not writing.

— Doris Lessing

Don't hedge your prose with little timidities. Good writing is lean and confident. . . . Every little qualifier whittles away some fraction of…

— William Zinsser