Anything Quote by Jennifer Egan

My writing is inspired by just about everything, yet I am unaware of so much of the process.

— Hubert Selby, Jr

If you think about writing a book, or when I did, it seems daunting, but when I began writing, it just started flowing.

— Jimmy O. Yang

Writing is a solitary pursuit and I think you have to be partially at peace with yourself, but it's the other part that's usually…

— Craig Johnson

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

Reading yields a wish to write, I think, except if the reading is dull and uninspiring.

— Joyce Carol Oates

I've described my usual writing process as scrambling from peak to peak on inspiration through foggy valleys of despised logic. Inspiration is better when…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

I have always been fascinated by the human mind, conscious and unconscious - that is what writing and reading is about, too. The why…

— Anne Roiphe

My best writing has to do with an internal process that I'm working out unconsciously and put into my characters.

— Lyle Kessler

Writing is a way of drifting within my own mind: almost a solitary process, so to speak.

— Twinkle Khanna

I think I'm drawn to writing about something which feels intense and important.

— Rose Tremain

When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Writing is my way of trying to understand vast things that probably I'll never truly understand, a way of exploring a Big Question, of…

— Leslie Pietrzyk