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Sometimes I decide I don't want to write because it isn't the thing for me to be doing right then, and I go do something else.

If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.

You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

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

I write because it feels good, and I don't have a deadline, and I don't have people telling me what they want me to write. Maybe if I did, I wouldn't be very good at it.

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

Writing has been so much a part of my life that I'm really quite annoyed that I can't do as much as I used to.

When writing isn't going well-then the bad thing about being a writer is that I also have the freedom and flexibility to do something badly, and no one else can fix it for me.

You sometimes use the excuse, 'I'm a writer, dammit, I can do anything I want,' but that doesn't work.

I don't think it's good to say that you won't do certain things, but I don't necessarily have the natural urge to write.