Astounded Quote by Kevin Spacey

You know how sometimes you meet writers that are so full of themselves? They feel really proud that they wrote something . But what…

— Sandra Cisneros

I think being a writer was a crappy job when you just had typewriters. It was crappy when we just had ink and paper.…

— Colson Whitehead

What's so exciting and terrifying about the writing process is that it really is an act of exploration and discovery. With all of us,…

— Andre Dubus

I'm not a writer who thinks about writing only for themselves; I do always have a reader in mind.

— Emma Healey

I am not a writer except when I write.

— Juan Carlos Onetti

For me the experience of writing is really an experience of losing control.... I think it's very much like dreaming or like surfing. You…

— Margaret Atwood

I've found that writers who don't read really can't write.

— Sylvia Day

I am a very personal writer. I write direct to the reader. I don't hold back.

— Ruskin Bond

“Writers write because they're writers. Because their imaginations boil up inside of them, waiting to overflow into the written word. Ordinary people have little…

— Brian A. McBride

The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world. Sometimes I'm…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I believe a writer is an eye, a pervasive eye that sees the reality that surrounds us, as well as the impression it makes…

— Mariela Griffor

Writing is a combination of being alert to your outer surroundings and alive to your inner reality.

— Julia Cameron