Back Quote by Donald McKay

My idea of writing is of unflinching and continual effort, somehow trying to find the right words until you reach a point where you…

— James Salter

I don't write all the time. But if I'm writing something, I'll just bang into it every day until it's finished. I write pretty…

— Martin McDonagh

I write to explore something that fascinates me, and I write the way I do because it is the only way I know how…

— Cathy Marie Buchanan

I'm very hard on myself when it comes to writing.

— Bryan Fuller

Writing takes too much patience and it takes too much out of you for me to want to attempt it too often.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

I think I'm a very lazy writer and by that I mean that I do not battle, I don't struggle too hard against it.…

— Wole Soyinka

I don't have the capacity to write stuff consciously. When I do, it's really awful.

— Bradford Cox

Writing for me always requires trickery. Tricking myself into sitting down, letting words tumble out until you find the good ones. It's sort of…

— John Hodgman

I write two pages - that's all I write. It takes me about an hour. I've learned that's all I'm capable of and to…

— Kate DiCamillo

I think if you have the compulsion to write, you're not going to feel whole until you start putting words on paper.

— Lee Kelly

All my writing is fun, and that makes it hard to slow down or walk away.

— Michael Connelly

Writing is like hitting yourself on the head with a hammer. It always feels good when you finish.

— Ray Guy