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I got into my usual obsessive writing frenzy, using all the material I'd worked on for so long and crafting it into a little…

— Helen Fielding

I don't know how everyone writes a novel; that sounds exhausting.

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life.…

— Alice Walker

I think many writers write because it's a convenient way to explain themselves to themselves. We take the chaos and the turmoil and the…

— Armistead Maupin

I'm really such a bumbler! Writing fiction is like arranging furniture in a dark room. I can't see what I'm doing. I grope for…

— Joanna Scott

In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.

— Richard Powers

So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Probably all writers now are in the same boat. It is…

— Virginia Woolf

With the novels, I usually start from something in my own life that I can't resolve, so I turn it into a metaphor and…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I do not think writers or anybody would sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they…

— Doris Lessing

Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.

— John le Carre

I'm not one of those true writers who can't bear not to be writing. Yet it's one of the most important things in my…

— Robyn Davidson

Writing is my way of trying to understand vast things that probably I'll never truly understand, a way of exploring a Big Question, of…

— Leslie Pietrzyk