Brain Quote by Elizabeth McCracken

“(Jack London)“He was an adventurer and a man of action as few writers have ever been . . . the excellence of his short…

— George Orwell

One of my big revelations was that nobody cares whether you write your novel or not. They want you to be happy. Your parents…

— Sam Lipsyte

The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.

— Sigmund Freud

Once a film gets into production, the actors sometimes begin to have more input than a writer does.

— Helen Mirren

By the time I get through writing a score, I know the book better than the book writer does, because I've examined every word,…

— Stephen Sondheim

To imagine yourself inside another person...is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last…

— Eudora Welty

The original writer is not he who does not imitate others, but he who can be imitated by none

— Anonymous

I do my best writing between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m.. Almost every friend I have who is a consistently productive writer, does their…

— Tim Ferriss

“The truly great writer does not want to write. He wants the world to be a place in which he can live the life…

— Henry Miller

That's really the essence of what any fiction writer does. Some of it is research-based, but most of it is a really long-term, imaginative,…

— Jonathan Dee

When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer…

— Rachel Kushner

A writer does not own words any more than a painter owns colors. So lets dispense with this originality fetish… Look, listen and transcribe…

— William S. Burroughs