Difficult Quote by Ian Mcewan

writing is like being in love. You never get better at it or learn more about it. The day you think you do is…

— James Lee Burke

Today, writing seems to me like an incredible luxury, almost a perversity, something which hardly exists in the world anymore, where you get to…

— Zadie Smith

I write to relieve an intellectual itch. I stumble across a hitherto neglected set of events, transformations, characters, or source materials from the past,…

— Linda Colley

If, at the close of business each evening, I myself can understand what I've written, I feel the day hasn't been totally wasted.

— Anonymous

For me, writing is exploration; and most of the time, I'm surprised where the journey takes me.

— Jack Dann

As much as I revere great writing, and am still humbled by it, literary activities are no longer esoteric to me. When I read…

— Jonathan Lethem

I think people have a tendency to think of a writer as someone who wants to go take a walk, maybe case a library...…

— Roberto Orci

Writing is like travelling. It's wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying.

— Langston Hughes

For me, wellbehaved books with neat plots and worked-out endings seem somewhat quaint in the face of the largely incoherent reality of modern life;…

— Don DeLillo

Writing will be like a journey, every word a footstep that takes me further into undiscovered land.

— David Almond

So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Probably all writers now are in the same boat. It is…

— Virginia Woolf

I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.

— Jeffery Deaver