Able Quote by Kate Atkinson

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

When I started writing about art, there were no curators.

— Waldemar Januszczak

I didn't take writing seriously at first - I didn't think I could do it. When I did, I fell in love with it.…

— Daniel Kaluuya

When I got to college, I didn't take writing classes, just the standard freshman composition class.

— Roger Zelazny

I was married when I was in my early twenties, and my former husband, an absolutely lovely man, didn't get the writing thing.

— Jenna Blum

I don't mean to be flippant about cancer - it was hard, it was tough and it was scary. Then my next manuscript was…

— Natalie Goldberg

My father's father wrote for a Philadelphia newspaper and aspired to be a playwright. We had in our house a couple of crazy unproduced…

— Stephen Gaghan

I actually didn't do any writing of music while I was locked up. I wrote a book, but I didn't do any music.

— Da Brat

When I started out, I didn't have any writing routine, I had a job. Writing was a hobby I indulged in over the weekends…

— Neal Asher

I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.

— Walter Jon Williams

I was never unhappy with the shows. I didn't get into [the writing]. I had an area. My area was my character. My area…

— David Rasche

I don't know about writing. It's quite lonely. You have to have a lot of patience with yourself.

— Ruth Wilson