I believe there are two ways of writing novels. One is…

“I believe there are two ways of writing novels. One is making a sort of musical comedy without music and ignoring real life altogether;…

— P. G. Wodehouse

... there is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just more and more fun.

— Gish Jen

There are millions of ways to not be writing. You say you're not in the mood, you'll pick it up tomorrow.

— Rod Serling

In many ways my writing is like therapy. It is my way of dealing with things.

— Corey Smith

There's hundreds of different ways of writing songs.

— Mick Jagger

“In some ways, writing a memoir is knocking yourself out with your own fist, if it’s done right.”

— Mary Karr

I would do a sort of violence to myself if I didn't express myself in the directly creative ways of writing, both words and…

— Stephen Hough

I really like to entertain myself in various ways when I'm writing.

— Meg Wolitzer

In certain ways writing is a form of prayer.

— Denise Levertov

I'm interested in ways of writing about the social world that don't assassinate the life that's in it

— Les Back

The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of…

— John Green

I think in a lot of ways, writing, when you're really in there, is like being an actress because you're in somebody else's head.

— Tama Janowitz

There are two different ways of writing a novel. The first I call the traditional father way, when the novelist slightly situates himself or…

— Elif Safak

Writers are a fascinating breed, because there are so many kinds of them, they are made by so many circumstances, conditions, and mysteries, and…

— William Saroyan

In many ways, writing is the act of saying 'I,' of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying, 'Listen to me, see it my…

— Joan Didion