Down and Quote by Zoe Kazan

There's plenty of times I sit down, I'm trying to write, and that feeling never comes, so I just don't do anything.

— Alex G

I sit down and I write what I'm thinking and what I feel - it happens all at once, I never stop writing.

— Lydia Hearst

There are times when I just can't bring myself to sit down and write and I'm never sure whether it's pure laziness or lack…

— Kate Cary

I feel more comfortable each time I sit down to write, but I'm determined to get better and better.

— Nayeon

It's been hard for me to not write, and that's the only process I can speak to I guess, it's so compulsive and I…

— Adam Rapp

I just feel like myself when I'm writing. If I don't do it, I get depressed.

— Olivia Rodrigo

When I get into the moment of actually feeling like I want to write, to finish something, I do what I've always read authors…

— Ted Leo

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

I have so little control over the act of writing that it's all I can do to remain conscious.

— David Rakoff

I don't have the capacity to write stuff consciously. When I do, it's really awful.

— Bradford Cox

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

— Gloria Steinem

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