„If you can’t write a decent short story because of the cold, write something else. Write anything.“

— William Saroyan
„You already know when I'm writing, so don't be surprised if it's short and dry, because I'm too hungry to write anything fat“
— Frédéric Chopin
„You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.“
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
„I soon learned that one must give up everything and not do anything else but write, that one must write write write.“
— Henry Miller
„Tell, rather than write, because I have nothing to write with and writing is in any case forbidden. But if it’s a story, even in my head, I must be telling it to someone. You don’t tell a story only to yourself. There’s always someone else.Even when there is no one.“
— Margaret Atwood
„Write it, damn you, write it! What else are you good for?“
— James Joyce