Ability Quote by Cormac McCarthy

“A writer who renders the brutal actions of men in excruciating detail, seldom applying the anesthetic of psychology, [Cormac] McCarthy would much rather orate…

— Richard B. Woodward

“In the days when I didn't know people were reading and judging me, I wrote serenely, as if eating bliny; now I am afraid…

— Anton Chekhov

“Slowly I discovered that writing was my way of coping with chaos and my cry of freedom, my homage to beauty. Because stories have…

— Vittorio Vandelli

“I felt like a character in a science fiction story, trapped in someone else's body, articulating someone else's words. To be frank, I bored…

— Philip Palmer

“Life as a writer was not what I expected. I knew no other writers. I knew no writing teachers or editors. I had to…

— Lee Siegel

“Before that, my life was always agitated by a tangle of tricks, feints and illusions intended to outwit the countless lures that tried to…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“I hate writing, I hate pens and paper and all that fussiness. I have done well enough without it too, I think. Oh, I…

— Sebastian Barry

“It struck me as odd that it had taken me so long to reach a feeling of sureness that there was something in me…

— Marion Milner

“Every writer I know, when asked how to become a writer, responds with one word:Read.”

— Marilynne Robinson

“I did not imagine anyone reading my rambling, ranting stories. I was writing for myself, trying to shape my life outside my terrors and…

— Dorothy Allison

“I gave up worrying about the principles of fiction writing when I realized that there weren't any.”

— Teri Louise Kelly

“From the beginning I've searched out those writers unafraid to stir up the emotions, who entrust me with their darkest passions, their most indestructible…

— Pat Conroy