“ Writing is a lonely business, which if allowed publicity and socializing it might deteriorate. Supportive people understand the need of a writer to withdraw to the solitude of oneself. Gloria D. Gonsalves
“ When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you writ… Ernest Hemingway
“ As so often happens in my strange writing process, after weeks of distraction; of not thinking about the book at all; yesterday I started writing before the sun was up, or coffee was made. Whipped out… Edward Fahey
“ We write not just to show off, not just to tell, or only to have written. We write to know ourselves. Jane Yolen
“ Those who are long on logic, definitions, abstractions, and formulas are frequently short on a sense of the concrete. Flannery O'Connor
“ There is no ceremony, no initiation ritual, no secret hand-shake. All you need to be a writer is to write. M. Kirin
“ The only thing you really need to be a writer is time. Regular, consistent time, quality time when you're not tired. I write on the bus to and from work, that's my time, 1 or 2 hours every single day.… Jonathan Maas
“ The very persons who have taken away my time and space are those who have given me something to say. Katherine Paterson
“ So much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am. Glen Hirshberg
“ When the vision fill yours mind and passio hits your gut, the need to write it down cannot be stifled. Marti Melville
“ Lie naked on the table, and let them cut. Criticism is surgery, and humility is the anesthetic that allows you to tolerate it. In the end, the process will make you a stronger, more flexible, and trul… Molly Cochran
“ The proverb, "Where there's a will.." sums it up for a writer who had just started in his writing life; for himself, the fictional characters and the audience of his works. It's a trinity of perspecti… Lucas Michael
“ I think the reason why I don't read so much, is because as I have observed, whole books all boil down to a drop of essence. You can read a book full of ten thousand words and at the end, sum it up in… C. JoyBell C.
“ Writing, music, sculpting, painting, and prayer! These are the three things that are most closely related! Writers, musicians, sculptors, painters, and the faithful are the ones who make things out of… C. JoyBell C.
