Writing

Writing is a product of silence.
-Carrie Latet

I even shower with my pen, in case any ideas drip out of the waterhead.
-Graycie Harmon

Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.
-Rainer Maria Rilke

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
-George Orwell, "Why I Write," 1947

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.
-William Styron, interview, Writers at Work, 1958