Writing is the process of asking the next logical question. — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
“Don't believe in everything that is written. Not everything that is written is true” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I scare myself at how easily I slip inside my mind and live vicariously through these characters.” — Teresa Mummert Copy Share Image
Writing is the process by which you explain to yourself what happened to you. — Arlene Croce Copy Share Image
“You will never learn how to write well if you don't learn how to edit.” — Sarah Gerdes Copy Share Image
“Every writer or wanna-be writer has ideas for books. The problem isn't finding an idea, it's choosing one” — Jo Linsdell Copy Share Image
“I thank everybody in this book for coming. -A.W., AUTHOR AND MEDIUM” — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“Want to be a writer? take a good book a good pen and a notepad to bed with you every night of… — Ken Scott Copy Share Image
I really don't use that much stuff. I think it's good to know a few pieces of equipment very well, rather than… — Jon Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Don’t start right off writing the ‘Great American Novel’, that's too much pressure and you'll get disappointed; start with porn, it’s fun… — scavola Copy Share Image
“Sentence making is an act of questing into unexplored regions, probing the anarchy of daylight, and exploring the troubling confusion and turmoil… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“The fastest way to revise a piece of work is to send it, late at night, to someone whose opinion you fear.… — Sarah Manguso Copy Share Image
“There’s a difference between the ‘art’ of writing and the ‘craft’ of writing. Art is subjective, its beauty lies in the eyes… — Gerard de Marigny Copy Share Image
I just thought it was important that people knew right from the jump that I've got problems. But in all seriousness, that's… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
All of my scripts are based on other people's novels. Generally, I consider myself as one who writes for theatre. I do… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“Never try to keep it professional, keep it smutty, write with bodily fluids on sandpaper, and damn the men with clipboards in… — Peter Selgin Copy Share Image
I was definitely looking for a reason to impose rules in the story during the writing process... a set of reasons that… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
The writing process is more... it becomes a case of more like a diary for me. I mean, I write stuff down… — Christina Milian Copy Share Image
“Novels were not arguments; a story worked, or it didn't, on its own merits. What did it matter if a detail was… — John Irving Copy Share Image
One of the things is, in the writing process, if you do it enough, you have a sense of where you are.… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
“So what do you do when you are stuck? The first thing I do when I am stuck is pray. But I’m… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
“I had taken up my quill to begin writing many times before now, but I always abandoned it quickly: each time I… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“A writer’s life is half ambition and half anxiety, and there has to be both. It is no good writing a novel… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“And yet, for a writer of fiction, part of the heart remains that of a stranger, for what we are trying to… — Margaret Laurence Copy Share Image
“Sometimes writing is just rubbing words together long enough to make a fire.” — Gillian Marchenko Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we don't know where we are going until we get there.” — Jacqueline Simon Gunn Copy Share Image
“People wonder why you choose certain subjects to write about. The truth is: you don't really. They choose you” — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
“Letters orchestrated into a song of words create the symphony of a novel.” — Leslie Austin Copy Share Image
“...when you're a writer, you become deeper and more uniquely distinct, the more you go inside yourself...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“I wish my brain had an off switch. Maybe that way I could get some sleep.” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
