I think that's what fiction writing is actually all about…

Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea. If you think about fiction writing as a spectrum, where at one end…

— Alan Lightman

It's my experience that people don't think of fiction writing as being as intellectually serious as other kinds of writing in academia and so…

— Alexander Chee

I always find out after the fact that the books I've been writing were actually some sort of therapy, some sort of, you know,…

— Blake Crouch

“My new book is going well. It’s practically writing itself! Actually, what I mean is I’m not writing it, my clone is.”

— Jarod Kintz

The ability to be writing towards something that was actually going to be a whole series was a really big lure.

— Tim Kring

“At first, writing actually felt the more arduous of the two activities. But in order to reach cultural-center nirvana, I forced myself to continue.…

— Yu Hua

Much of the activity we think of as writing is, actually, getting ready to write.

— Gail Godwin

I had at some point the epiphany that if I wanted to be a writer, maybe I should stop thinking about writing, or stop…

— Matt Fraction

“Academic writing was actually about hiding what you didn’t know. There was a language, a technique, and I had mastered it. In everything there…

— Karl Ove Knausgård

I never stopped writing about what was actually going on in my life. There's nothing to hide.

— Lana Del Rey

Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself.

— Graham Swift

“Don't fool yourself. Talking about writing is not the same as actually doing it.”

— Christy Hall

Writing should not be routine; writing should actually be the opposite of procedural because otherwise the written word would become a routine word.

— Elie Wiesel

You can't improv off of bad writing. Then you have to actually create your objective, which is really hard to do in an element…

— Eliza Coupe

I can't believe it! Reading and writing actually paid off!

— Matt Groening