“If, when you wake up in the morning, you can think of nothing but writing… then you are a writer.”
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) Austrian poet and writer
archive.defensenews.com interview http://archive.defensenews.com/article/20131119/DEFREG02/311190032/Interview-Ashton-Carter-US-Deputy-Defense-Secretary
“If, when you wake up in the morning, you can think of nothing but writing… then you are a writer.”
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) Austrian poet and writer
“I wake up every morning and think: You know what would be good today? Not dying.”
Rick Riordan (1964) American writer
Source: Percy Jackson's Greek Gods
Angie Thomas (1988) American author
On looking to the next generation for hope in “Author Angie Thomas: Burn It All Down Or Use Those Emotions In My Art” https://www.ttbook.org/interview/author-angie-thomas-burn-it-all-down-or-use-those-emotions-my-art in To the Best of Our Knowledge (2019 Jan 14)
“Can I give them what they think they're going to get from me? That's always the big question.”
Julie Andrews (1935) British actress, singer, author, theatre director, and dancer
Screen Stories (November 1970)
Barbara Sher (1935) American writer
Source: I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It