Belittle Quote by Don DeLillo

There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.

— Ernest Hemingway

Writing is not a mystery. It is a craft like any other, and it can be learned.

— Robert Scholes

If you're a writer, you know there are ways in which we don't know what we're doing at all. We're working out mysteries in…

— Colum McCann

There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.

— Joy Williams

Writing always means hiding something in such a way that it then is discovered.

— Italo Calvino

Writing is a consequence of having been 'haunted' by material. Why this is, no one knows.

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Writing is an act of discovery in which you peel back the layers of the story as you write it down.”

— Matt Forbeck

Writing is a mysterious activity.

— Susan Sontag

There's a mystery to writing, and you don't really know where most of it comes from.

— Neil Diamond

A piece of writing is like a piece of magic. You create something out of nothing.

— Susanna Clarke

I think I write about things that are mysterious to me.

— Ann Beattie

“Writing always means hiding something in such a way that it then is discovered; because the truth that can come from my pen is…

— Italo Calvino