Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience…

There's a lot of progress happening in TV. You have amazing shows like 'How to Get Away With Murder.' You have people like Shonda…

— Jurnee Smollett-Bell

I've been criticised for writing in too complex a manner for younger people.

— Tanith Lee

Sometimes I make my life a living hell by writing complex stories with complex characters. But I love it.

— Anonymous

“It seems important to me that beginning writers ponder this—that since 1964, I have never had a book, story or poem rejected that was…

— Joseph Hansen

I knew nothing about the technique of story writing, and now, after eighteen years of writing, I still know nothing about the technique, although…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

I've been doing my big theater projects, which take years, and writing a song here and there.

— David Friedman

I feel like I'm almost ready to write fiction about the border. But even after 10 years of writing nonfiction about it, I don't…

— William T. Vollmann

The only thing I've consistently been interested in in the last twenty-five years is writing very short texts. That continues to interest me as…

— Sarah Manguso

There's just something "off" about equating the act of spending three years writing a book with the act of someone exploiting themselves by drunkenly…

— Marie Calloway

It's the typical mid-life crisis kind of thing, where you just stop and wonder, 'Should I go back to university and get a law…

— Lynn Coady

I have spent 20 years writing these books. Had I wanted to say men are beasts and scream, that takes 30 seconds.

— Andrea Dworkin

I've been writing since I was about thirteen but didn't start a book until 2007. I spent four years writing a sci-fi novel before…

— Samantha Shannon

I'm one of those writers who can't talk about what they're working on. The entire four years I was writing 'House of Sand and…

— Anonymous

I just assume that I'll fail at something for several years - that I'll try my hardest and still fail for several years. With…

— Philipp Meyer

Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind. My thirty-seventh birthday had just come and gone, the end of 2008…

— Akhil Sharma