Able Quote by Dick Cavett

There are so many different ways, most of them helpful and legal, to get yourself into a state of mind where writing is possible.…

— Alice Mattison

You can't really write until the characters kind of show up one day and tell you what they're going to say. You start to…

— Chris Terrio

Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.

— Agatha Christie

The only way to learn to write is to force yourself to produce a certain number of words on a regular basis.

— Anonymous

Writing for others is great cos you can tailor it for them.

— Craig David

You have to relax, write what you write. It sounds easy but it's really, really hard. One of the things it took me longest…

— Diane Setterfield

The thing for someone just starting off [in writing] is to write. You need to have limber fingers, whether you write with your fingers…

— Augusten Burroughs

You know, writing is really difficult, and it takes a real patience and a skill. I don't know if I have that. I admire…

— Adam Scott

There is no trick to it. If you like to write and want to write, you write, no matter where you are or what…

— E. B. White

You have to really understand how people speak, and you have to reconstruct it... Most pleasure in writing, you know, is in inventing.

— Grace Paley

I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking.

— Alistair Cooke

I don't really write beautifully naturally, unlike some people.

— George Saunders