Writing takes place in an open playing field with…

it is the possibilities which are the most terrible things in life.

— Phyllis Bottome

A lot of writing takes place in the subconscious, and it's bound to have an effect.

— George R. R. Martin

A piece of writing takes exactly as long as it needs to be done right.

— Norma Fox Mazer

You know, I can't imagine 9 to 5 writing. That takes some stamina.

— Brit Marling

I'm trying to take more nothing time - and that means sacrificing doing. It's partly to do with age, partly to do with the…

— Kate Atkinson

Writing takes too much patience and it takes too much out of you for me to want to attempt it too often.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

“The best writing takes you places you don't want to go. It drags you by the hair against your will and leaves you drained,…

— Penfist

“Writing takes a pen, a sheet of paper and, to start with, just the shadow of an idea.”

— Françoise Sagan

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

— Leonard Mlodinow

Eventually the writing takes time. What I want to do is get the story down and I want to know what happens as I…

— Philip Roth

Writing takes gall. I like to think that's true even for writers with several books under their belt, writers who have been doing it…

— Rumaan Alam

“Like reading, writing takes me to places I would otherwise never be able to go.”

— Bea Cannon

The web has changed the way we organise information in a very clear way: from the boundaried, solid format of books and newspapers to…

— Katharine Viner

Nothing is more paralyzing than the idea of limitless possibilities.

— Austin Kleon

The hope of Internet anarchists was that repressive governments would have only two options: accept the Internet with its limitless possibilities of spreading information,…

— Peter Singer