I love quotes about writing and the writing life, and here are some of my favorites...
"Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way." ~ E.L. Doctorow
“Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.” ~ Gloria Steinem
“There’s nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.” ~ Red Smith
“Finally one just has to shut up, sit down, and write.” ~ Natalie Goldberg
“Success is never so interesting as struggle. Not even to the successful.” ~ Willa Cather
“A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.” ~ Richard Bach
“What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog … ? The question is: Can you write?” ~ Ernest Hemingway
“[A writer] should also live with someone who can cook and who will both be with one and leave one alone.” ~ Lorrie Moore
“Writers will happen in the best of families.” ~ Rita Mae Brown
“Writing is a fascinating, arduous and solitary profession. The technical skills necessary to produce even a commonplace novel are quite as complicated as those necessary for a brain operation.” ~ Hugh MacLennan
“If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.” ~ Maya Angelou
"I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this." ~ Cormac McCarthy
"Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader--not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon." ~ E.L. Doctorow
"A writer never has a vacation. For a writer life consists of either writing or thinking about writing." ~ Eugene Ionesco
