Biographies Quote by Don DeLillo

As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I’ve tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write a few pages and I don’t want to go on.

— Lawrence Block

Writing isn't just on the page; it's voices in the reader's head. Read what you write out loud to someone-anyone-and you will catch all…

— Donna Jo Napoli

Just do it. Get it down on the page. Work hard. And then let go. Ask yourself why you want to write. You have…

— Yann Martel

Writing is not just about putting words on a page. Ideas have to cook first.

— Fiona Barton

I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.

— Gertrude Stein

I really don't write much anymore, and I'm not uncomfortable with that. I've tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write…

— Lawrence Block

I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading.

— Maya Angelou

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

First and foremost, it's got to be on the page. It starts with the writing.

— Miguel Ferrer

I write in a pretty straightforward way. I kind of sit down at page one and start writing.

— Zack Snyder

If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. Where you just put down…

— Madeleine L'Engle