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“The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties”
William Somerset Maugham quotes (English short-story Writer, Novelist and Playwright, 1874-1965)

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“The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.”
Marge Piercy quotes (American novelist, essayist, and poet, b.1936 )
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“You can point out to people how to make what they do better, but you can't teach somebody how to be a great writer, just like you can't teach somebody how to be a fast runner. You can work on their technique, but either they're fast or they're not; either they can write or they can't.”
Richard Price quotes
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“I think a lot of unpublished writers feel the same way. They're not getting anywhere, and nobody's listening to them. You do get frustrated.”
Nick Hornby quotes (English , b.1957)
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“There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.”
J. B. Priestley quotes (English , 1894-1984)
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“Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.”
Henry David Thoreau quotes (American Essayist, Poet and Philosopher, 1817-1862)
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“In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on.”
Richard Eder quotes
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“Every writer I know has trouble writing.”
Joseph Heller quotes
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“Many people hear voices when no-one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up on rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing.”

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