Alienation Quote by D. H. Lawrence

Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true…

— Truman Capote

“If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent…

— Ray Bradbury

“Writers write because they're writers. Because their imaginations boil up inside of them, waiting to overflow into the written word. Ordinary people have little…

— Brian A. McBride

Writing is a journey into the unknown.

— Charlie Kaufman

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the…

— William Styron

“Writing is about allowing yourself to become a vessel of creativity. Writers are avatars of creation. We have tender hearts, and strong emotions. It's…

— Sai Marie Johnson

our finest writing will certainly come from what is unregenerate in ourselves. It will come from the part that is obdurate, unbanishable, immune to…

— Bonnie Friedman

“Writing is a pitched battle with the elusive self, a contest that resultant celebratory jubilee demonstrates the writer’s innate capacity to meld abstract ideas…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

But I have seen my obstacles: trivialities, learning and poetry. This last needs explaining: the old artist's readiness to dissolve characters into a haze.…

— E. M. Forster

I can't be alone among fiction writers in regarding the world, so much weirder than anything we could make up, as beating us at…

— Lionel Shriver

“The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have mighty dull literature if all the writers…

— William Styron

I enjoy writing in a lot of different styles, so I pushed to find that vicious place, or that vulnerable place, and let it…

— Mikky Ekko