Everyone now, not just writers, creates a written…

To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say…

— Kingsley Amis

I'm always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very bland.

— Rose Tremain

“You know what they say about writers: we can do it quietly, in many different positions, and all night long.”

— Christopher D. Votey

I've been an advocate against the view of the writer as a partitioned genius hanging in conceptual space, or up on a mountain, a…

— Jonathan Lethem

“I have from the first felt sure that the writer, when he sits down to commence his novel, should do so, not because he…

— Anthony Trollope

All writers, I think, are to one extent or another, damaged people. Writing is our way of repairing ourselves.

— Anonymous

Writers are often the worst judges of what they have written.

— Stephen King

“Personal trainers and writers don't end up in history books.”

— Caspar Vega

Writers are used to being re-created, and need it.

— Anonymous

There are some writers who are done when they finish a draft because they've thought it through beforehand. Whereas I'll finish a first draft…

— Heidi Julavits

I got a different persona than a lot of these other guys.

— Aljamain Sterling

An artist is generally expected to stick to one motif, one persona. People get used to seeing someone put down a certain thing.

— Ad-Rock

“A man's work reveals him. In social intercourse he gives you the surface that he wishes the world to accept, but in his book…

— W. Somerset Maugham

I have that need in me, I want everyone to love me, but I'm embarrassed by that need, so I wanted to cover it…

— Anthony Jeselnik

Bobby Heenan did what every announcer should strive to do and that is to make talent bigger stars than they are and to embellish…

— Jim Ross