Action Quote by Juan Goytisolo

Writing for me is quite a plastic form, a kind of mental sculpture, although that sounds weird. It acquires its character and its depth…

— Kate Atkinson

I think of writing as a sculptural medium. You are not building things. You are removing things, chipping away at language to reveal a…

— Will Self

A tight structural form opens possibilities. Take a pattern, an established model or sub-genre, and write to it. In writing, limitation gives freedom

— W. G. Sebald

I think structure is so deep in us. We put it in stories we tell our friends or in emails we write. We want…

— Greta Gerwig

Writers write. That's all it is. It is as simple, and as complex, as that.

— Stephen King

Various random experiments, cut-ups, fold-ins, juxtapositions, timed writings of other kinds, the "objects assignment" which involves dream, adventure, ancestry. Writing outside, writing on moving…

— Anne Waldman

“If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic....Authors arrive at…

— Toni Morrison

There are but few who have ideas and are, at the same time, capable of action. Ideas enlarge but stymie, action enlivens but confines.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I write characters that are based on elements of people I know and experiences I've really had.

— Aziz Ansari

“Writing is not just a process of creation. It is also a process of self-discovery”

— Cristina Istrati

I've always thought abstractly - through theme and variations rather than narrative.

— Robert Wilson

Writing is something that comes naturally to me, like acting.

— Divya Dutta