Conclusion Quote by Charles Dance

I routinely oscillate between exultation and despair. Maybe at the end of the day I feel pretty good about what I've written, but the…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

Writing is a strange and solitary activity. There are dispiriting times when you start working on the first few pages of a novel. Every…

— Patrick Modiano

I think you sense the metaphorical resonance of what you're writing without analysing it too carefully. That leads you down dead ends. You stop…

— Joseph O'Neill

If you think about writing a book, or when I did, it seems daunting, but when I began writing, it just started flowing.

— Jimmy O. Yang

“Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of…

— Eudora Welty

I try not to think too much about my writing process - I tend to feel my way forward and find more insights that…

— Nick Petrie

Writing is always a way, for me, of coming to some sort of understanding that I can't reach otherwise.It forces you to think. It…

— Joan Didion

Whenever I write a novel, I have a strong sense that I am doing something I was unable to do before. With each new…

— Haruki Murakami

A writer is always, always searching, even against her will, against all her better instincts, for the thread of a story. Everything is fodder.…

— Miriam Toews

I think when you're a writer most of what you read influences you. The rhythms get into your head.

— Elizabeth Crook

As Im writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall…

— Candace Bushnell

When I start writing, my unconscious, my conflicts, my thoughts all start to come up. So for me, writing is an exploration. I never…

— Janet Fitch