Asking Quote by Amy Lowell

To ask a novelist to talk about his novels is like asking somebody to cook about their dancing.

— Jim Crace

Either a writer doesn't want to talk about his work, or he talks about it more than you want.

— Anatole Broyard

Every writer should be able to write anything if you do the research and you're sensitive enough to ask the questions.

— Courtney A. Kemp

In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions…

— Donna Tartt

“Don't worry about getting published. Write for therapy. Write for you.”

— Ksenia Anske

A writer who isn't writing is asking for trouble.

— Walter Kirn

What a writer wants to do is not what he does.

— Jorge Luis Borges

You're part of the human fabric of experience. You don't have to have cancer to write about cancer. You don't have to have somebody…

— Regina Spektor

“The public has no idea that writing is a disease, and that the writer who publishes is like a beggar who exhibits his sores. ”

— Michael Kruger

A writer needs a life of introspection.

— Tom Robbins

A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring…

— William Stafford

Any writer who knows what he's doing isn't doing very much.

— Nelson Algren