Brain Quote by John Lanchester

I write totally spontaneously. I actually write fiction by hand - that always seems to startle people. I think the reason I do that…

— Jennifer Egan

Writing, of course, it's not all in your head. Not talking about the 'manual' act of typing here either, but that, when your fiction's…

— Stephen Graham Jones

I write fiction longhand. That's not so much about rejecting technology as being unable to write fiction on a computer for some reason. I…

— Jennifer Egan

I write fast, because I have not the brains to write slow.

— Georges Simenon

I don't know if I am a good, average, or bad writer, but I write fast. Everything I observe, my experiences and imagination come…

— Dhanush

I write fiction. I make things up, it's what I do.

— Michael Morpurgo

I don't write a lot of fiction.

— John Rzeznik

I don't know that any writing comes easily, but I certainly get more immersed in novels. I don't think the routine is any different,…

— 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

I don't write all the time. But if I'm writing something, I'll just bang into it every day until it's finished. I write pretty…

— Martin McDonagh

I have to say that writing about my writing process is more daunting than writing non-fiction.

— Sefi Atta

I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown.

— Tom Stoppard