Any Quote by Jess Walter

I do write a lot of prose. It's not disciplined enough yet that it's actually become stories, or short stories. The idea of writing…

— PJ Harvey

Writing fiction is not a profession that leaves one well-disposed toward reading fiction. One starts out loving books and stories, and then one becomes…

— Neil Gaiman

Fiction has always been a thorn in my side, because I've always wanted to be a writer but I can't seem to really do…

— Sufjan Stevens

For me, writing a novel is more like digging a well than climbing a mountain - some heroic thing where I set out to…

— Mohsin Hamid

Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes…

— Joan Didion

I know I'll keep writing poems. That's the constant. I don't know about novels. They're hard. It takes so much concentrated effort. When I'm…

— Sherman Alexie

I've found that writing novels is an all-absorbing experience - both physical and mental - and I have to do it every day in…

— Paul Auster

I am not one of those writers that it just flows out of effortlessly. I have to sit and write and rewrite and sometimes…

— Princess Superstar

My writing life is pretty simple - I try to work every day, almost always in the mornings - and I can only write…

— Jonathan Lethem

Novels definitely come more naturally to me. When I write short stories, it's always a fight against it expanding.

— Maggie Shipstead

I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing.

— Roxane Gay

It's hard work, writing, you know. Honestly, a fight every day against your own limitations. You have to squeeze books out of your brain,…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon