I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my…

I'm not very happy idle.

— Harlan Coben

“Practicality requires that we stop somewhere in the process, but nothing actually says we can't keep on writing and revising. In fact, most writers…

— Ralph L. Wahlstrom

My writing is very organic. It's what I am. My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt…

— Alice Walker

For that reason you can't write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the…

— Philip Pullman

“Two people at a cocktail party. One turns to the other and says: "I'm writing a novel." The other replies, "Neither am I.”

— Private Eye

My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.

— Alice Walker

“Author says writing about Jesus is difficult because it is like writing about a friend "who is still liable to surprise us.”

— N.T. Wright

As David Roderick says about writing, "It's not the tale that pleases, it's the telling," and I could not agree more.

— Jack Driscoll

“Anyone who says writing is easy isn't doing it right.”

— Amy Joy

“ My friend Isabel says, When you’re writing even a short novel, with at least a couple of subplots, and God only knows how…

— Sarah Manguso

All these screams All these voices in my head

— Nicki Minaj

I'm not the only taxpayer who has no idea what he's sending to the IRS. This year, only 28 percent of all Americans will…

— Dave Barry

The good thing about Pittsburgh, it's a good place to be raised... it doesn't tolerate assholes. You're either a good guy or you're a…

— Dennis Miller

I love being by the ocean. It stills the voices in my head.

— Chris Weitz

I have so many different projects, I hear voices in my head - the characters talking all at once - and I have to…

— Eli Roth