Capability Quote by Anonymous

“Novelist by day; screenwriter by night.”

— A.D. Posey

As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.

— Aimee Bender

A person writing at night may put out the lamp, but the words he has written will remain. It is the same with the…

— Gautama Buddha

If, when you wake up in the morning, you can think of nothing but writing . . . then you are a writer.

— Anonymous

“There's a great body of people who flower at night, who feel night is their time. Night is the time people truly become individuals,…

— John Crosby

I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

“There are times you wake up in the middle of the night, fingers hit the keyboard and you allow words to flow. That is…

— Jenn E

“Writers don’t get time off. Every moment - waking or sleeping - a writer is working, observing, thinking and creating.”

— Graeme Roberts

It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs.

— Gerald Brenan

“The creative writer is compulsively concrete . . . . His fictional house should be haunted by ideas, not inhabited by them; they should…

— Wallace Stegner

Anybody can find out if he is a writer. If he were a writer, when he tried to write of some particular day, he…

— Maxwell Perkins

“A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he…

— Orhan Pamuk