It's painful to consider anything but writing.

“When I consider writing I sometimes wonder why doesn't everybody do it, other times I wonder why does anybody do it.”

— Tonny K. Brown

“I consider writing as a complement to who I am”

— MBarreto Condado

“Is a twist less satisfying if you know it’s coming? Is a twist that you can’t predict symptomatic of bad construction? These are things…

— Gabrielle Zevin

I don't consider writing a quiet, closet act. I consider it a real physical act. When I'm home writing on the typewriter, I go…

— Patti Smith

I consider writing as a fine art. We kill it by imposing the alphabet on little children and making it the beginning of learning.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Now I ask you to consider writing from the inside, to convince yourself of your characters' dimensions before you attempt to narrate around them…

— Tin House Books

The first thing you have to consider when writing a novel is your story, and then your story - and then your story!

— Ford Madox Ford

I consider writing a legitimate Zen practice.

— Natalie Goldberg

I consider writing an act of good citizenship.

— Kurt Vonnegut

What writing ROOM taught me was that I know exactly how to be the perfect mother, but I'm not willing to do it for…

— Emma Donoghue

There are some tales not for telling, whether because they are too long, too precious, too laughable, too painful, too easy to need telling…

— Emma Donoghue

John Lane has long been recognized as one of the South's finest poets and memoirists. This debut establishes him as one of our finest…

— Ron Rash

If it is written and read with serious attention, a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation…

— Karen Armstrong

It was the one dream he'd never permitted himself to consider.

— Julia Quinn

'Inequality' has become the political theme/slogan of our time in both Europe and the U.S., yet political leaders do not even bother to consider…

— Paul Singer