There is no way of writing stories that I haven't done.

As a woman, a lot of stories haven't been told and we've got a lot of catching up to do.

— Lili Taylor

I usually start writing stories from tone and not from content - kind of like people who create music and invent the lyrics later…

— Etgar Keret

My family life reads a bit like 'Little House on the Prairie.' I was big sister to Joan, Renee, and brother William, and we…

— Maeve Binchy

“When people stop writing down their stories, the soul the world is lost.”

— Ann Aguirre

I have always loved to read, and now that I have penned 10 novels and a few magazine articles, I have fallen seriously in…

— Dorothea Benton Frank

I didn't do anything as active as deciding that I wanted to be a writer. For one thing, I didn't feel like I was…

— Kelly Link

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

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

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