Helping Quote by John D'Agata

The writings are often written in a kind of exhaustion or delirium, I try very hard not to censor myself, to be as honest…

— Jill Magid

For the kind of places I've written for and the kind of writing that I've done, the general way to think about your audience…

— Louis Menand

You're writing for some version of yourself. You're writing the kinds of things that you like to read or wanted to read at a…

— Gary Giddins

This suspension of one's own reality, this being entirely alone in a strange city (at times I wondered if I had lost the power…

— May Sarton

I believe that people should write biographies only about people they love, or understand, or both. Novels, on the other hand, are often better…

— Penelope Fitzgerald

A lot of people get writer's block, and I think you just have to show up for work, sit down, and be like, 'I'm…

— Brian Fallon

“Was the dividing line between life and fiction as hazy for other people as it was for a writer?”

— Dean Koontz

In a writer there must always be two people - the writer and the critic.

— Leo Tolstoy

There are just so many options that people have. But as a writer, you'll drive yourself crazy, if you worry about that too much.…

— Carlton Cuse

“Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere. While others…

— Anonymous

People have writer's block not because they can't write, but because they despair of writing eloquently.

— Anonymous

I write mostly in my office in the shed outside at home, but it can get very cold. I write best on the train,…

— Dermot Healy