“A writer never has a vacation. For a writer life consists of either writing or thinking about writing.” – Eugene Ionesco

“You may be able to take a break from writing, but you won’t be able to take a break from being a writer…” – Stephen Leigh

“You know what it means – you’re a writer and you understand it. It’s not just ‘the satisfaction of being published.’ Great God! It’s the satisfaction of getting it out, or having that, so far as you’re concerned, gone through with it! That good or ill, for better or for worse, it’s over, done with, finished, out of your life forever and that, come what may, you can at least, as far as this thing is concerned, get the merciful damned easement of oblivion and forgetfulness.” – Tom Wolfe

“I count it a high honor to belong to a profession in which the good men write every paragraph, every sentence, every line, as lovingly as any Addison or Steele, and do so in full regard that by tomorrow it will have been burned, or used, if at all, to line a shelf.” – Alexander Woollcott

“I never want to see anyone, and I never want to go anywhere or do anything. I just want to write.” – P. G. Wodehouse