Basements Quote by John Sandford

I suppose I have an active imagination, and writing allows me to live it out.

— Richard Paul Evans

Once you start writing something obsessively, it's almost like someone has to rip it from your hands in order for you to put it…

— Mike Birbiglia

People on the outside think there's something magical about writing, that you go up in the attic at midnight and cast the bones and…

— Harlan Ellison

And all writing is creating or spinning dreams for other people so they won't have to bother doing it themselves.

— Beth Henley

Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. And what the Internet…

— Jonathan Franzen

Writing is the crack through which you can crawl into a bigger world, into your wild mind.

— Natalie Goldberg

With me, writing is 60% imagination, 30% people you know and 10% you don't know where it comes from.

— Terrence McNally

No matter what you write, you need an active imagination.

— Elizabeth Berg

I have no system of writing. It's chaos. I could be upside down on my bedroom floor; I'll be scribbling on a pad that…

— Greg Davies

Writing is a lot like making soup. My subconscious cooks the idea, but I have to sit down at the computer to pour it…

— Robin Wells

A lot of people, I think, harbor some kind of ambition to write a novel - they say, 'One day I'm going to write…

— Alex Garland

Writing is a cop-out. An excuse to live perpetually in fantasy land, where you can create, direct and watch the products of your own…

— Monica Dickens