E. B. White Quotes

Ever since I started writing in college, I have, save for a few short breaks here and there, been working away on something. I love it, I need it, and so it never occurred to me to put writing on the back burner.

Gather knowledge about the craft of writing. Immerse yourself in the art of it. Then write. Write yourself silly. Write yourself mad. Write yourself blind. Trust the excitement that builds within you when the idea is good and the writing is superb. You can do it, but that's the hell of it as well as the exultation of it. You have to do it.

The main thing about writing is... writing. Sitting your butt down in the chair and doing the work.

Still, something about writing made me spend large hours of my free time at my desk.

Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.

Just keep writing, and try to finish that novel. Remember, all authors started exactly where you are right now; the only difference between a published author and a non-published one is that the published author never stopped writing.

I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught, but that relentless desire to write has to come from within.

I always have a will to write. It's organic to me.

Write, write, write-till your fingers break.

The only difference between a writer and someone who wants to be a writer is discipline.

I write every day. I don't have a writing schedule. I write when I feel like it. Fortunately I feel like it all the time. I am writing for hours.

Every spare second I would write, somehow. On my lunch hour, too.

As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but don't get bogged down in it.

The only way to be a novelist, to think that you can create something others will give themselves up to for a dozen hours or more, is to have psychotic self-belief.

Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me.

I like writing. I get cranky when I can't. Yes, I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.

I'm not one of those true writers who can't bear not to be writing. Yet it's one of the most important things in my life.

I started writing one afternoon when I was twenty, and ever since then I have written every day. At first I had to force myself. Then it became part of my identity, and I did it without thinking.

I write what I'm interested in.

The only real advice you can give anyone is to keep writing.

If you show up to work five days in a row, nobody's going to pat you on the back - everyone does that. Well, do that with your writing. Just show up. Be there for it. When you get an idea, write it down somewhere and then be a steward of that idea.

A one-hundred-thousand-word novel might take a year or several years, and then you just come to 'The End' one day. But it takes hundreds of days to get to 'The End.' As a writer, you have to put in those hundreds of days.

Being a writer involves writing. You've got to commit to sitting down and writing instead of Xbox or Netflix.

I have been writing since I was old enough to spell. I have never considered not writing.

What I tell young writers is to find those things that you're so passionate about that your energy doesn't run away.