From Creative Screenwriting Weekly:

[dustyfedora]

"All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand

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[scearley]

"I don't recommend being a bachelor, but it helps if you want to write."
-Nelson Algren