In my experience, when you're writing, you want the truth…

... and yet he could also be very charming, in a bookish, infinitely apologetic way.

— Paula McLain

“Modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in order to…

— George Orwell

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

— Anthony Trollope

I'm not superstitious in my normal daily life but I get that way about writing, even though I know it's all bullshit. But I…

— Quentin Tarantino

In my mind, there's not a great difference between what people call fiction and non-fiction. So in that sense, I'm like an early-18th-century person.…

— John Ralston Saul

“There's no right way of writing. There's only your way.”

— Milton Lomask

That's another way of writing a song, of course. Just talking to somebody that ain't there. That's the best way. That's the truest way.…

— Bob Dylan

When I wrote and got out of the way, writing did writing.” (p.90)

— Natalie Goldberg

“Sleep just gets in the way of the writing I want to do.”

— Celine Garcia

In a crazy way, writing is a lot like any kind of very complex game - like chess, where you have the knowledge as…

— Adam Ross

Longhand isn't well suited to my way of writing. I tend to end up with dozens of pages of crossings-out and margin scribbles just…

— Steven Hall

Once I get my writing done, then I can turn my attention elsewhere - and not the other way around. The writing has to…

— Brad Listi

Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done,…

— William Faulkner

If you've got craft, you got game. If you got game, you can write your way in and out of anything. Writing is the…

— Robert Mark Kamen

Modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in order to…

— George Orwell