Hands Quote by Fay Weldon

You think you have some stable talent which will show no matter what you're writing, and if it doesn't seem to be getting across…

— Joan Didion

I understand that each one of us works at a different speed, and has a slightly different process. I understand that these writers are…

— Stephen King

Directing my own writing, I see that I talk way too much, and everything can happen much sooner, with much less said about it.

— Christopher McQuarrie

Most people who seek attention and regard by announcing that they're writing a novel are actually so devoid of narrative talent that they can't…

— Paul Fussell

But the sensibility of the writer, whether fiction or poetry, comes from paying attention. I tell my students that writing doesn't begin when you…

— Julia Alvarez

Somehow writing has always seemed to me to have an element of performance.

— Joan Didion

You know, many writers really don't like to write. I think this the chief complaint of so many. They hate to write; they do…

— Harper Lee

Writing takes gall. I like to think that's true even for writers with several books under their belt, writers who have been doing it…

— Rumaan Alam

a writer doesn't only need the time when he's actually writing - he or she has got to have time to think and time…

— Nadine Gordimer

Writing across genres has made me more prolific. When one is fighting me or simply not cutting it, I turn to another.

— Julianna Baggott

As artists, we are so not in control most of the time of the content or the narrative of our characters, and sometimes writing…

— Mike Colter

When you consider that there are a thousand ways to express even the simplest idea, it is no wonder writers are under a great…

— E. B. White