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Writing is a very lonely occupation. To write you need to concentrate, to concentrate you need to lock yourself away. No distractions; you want your stream of thought uninterrupted.

One tends to write beyond what's needed.

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

The writer's duty is to keep on writing.

A writer who isn't writing is asking for trouble.

My idea of writing is of unflinching and continual effort, somehow trying to find the right words until you reach a point where you can make no further progress and you either have something or you don't.

Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.

Writing requires an intense inner focus, and sometimes you need to express outward, physically or socially.

Writing is sometimes a balancing act between keeping things easily readable and being accurate.

Writing is a muscle that needs to be exercised every day: The more you write, the easier it becomes.