Able Quote by John Gimlette

I like to think that I'm one of the few people in public life who write their own material. I write every word. And…

— Ed Koch

For me, writing isn't a way of being public or private; it's just a way of being. The process is always full of pain,…

— Jamaica Kincaid

For me, writing isn't a way of being public or private; it's just a way of being. The process is always full of pain,…

— Jamaica Kincaid

I write because the act of writing itself is what drives me. It's a private communication within myself - nothing more or less. This…

— Michael Hersch

On the Internet, everyone is writing. There is a great flowering of writing.

— James Salter

Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.

— Cesare Pavese

I think writing is really a process of communication. . . . It's the sense of being in contact with people who are part…

— Sherley Anne Williams

You know, writing is really difficult, and it takes a real patience and a skill. I don't know if I have that. I admire…

— Adam Scott

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 don't like writing in front of a lot of people, it has to be an intimate experience with people I trust.

— LIZ

I like writing with people. I think the times that I've closed myself off to not writing with people, I haven't gotten the best…

— Noah Cyrus

For me, writing in public is actually super energizing and so much fun. Especially when writing can typically be really painful and certainly hard,…

— Robin Sloan