The best thing about writing is that your imagination has…

Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

— Pat Conroy

“The best kind of writing is that in which imagination has free reign in the wilds of your mind.”

— ChristaCarol Jones

“Writing is one-third imagination, one-third experience, and one third observation.”

— William Faulkner

The thing about writing or making art is that I'm not thinking about that stuff while I'm doing it. Like the driver's ed kid,…

— Chelsea Martin

The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.

— Kate Atkinson

It's a funny thing about writing. You get so balled up in a story idea that you lose your perspective and forget that human…

— Gary Reilly

The great thing about writing for a younger audience is that they will give it to you straight with their responses. They'll tell you…

— Cassandra Clare

And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, you look very…

— Sandra Cisneros

The hardest thing about writing a script is you finish it, but it doesn't mean anything. It's not like a novel or short story…

— Maggie Carey

There have been times when I've written something and it goes out and it comes back in a letter from some kid as to…

— David Bowie

“One thing about writing this much… her brain never really shifted out of The World of Mages. When she sat down to write, she…

— Rainbow Rowell

My prescription for writer's block is to face the fact that there is no such thing… Writing well is difficult, but one can always…

— Thomas Mallon

What's the best thing you can do for your writing? Construct a boring life.

— Dorothy Allison

That's one of the great thing about writing is that you get to be in someone's head.

— Lauren Conrad

I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody…

— James A. Michener