Feel Quote by Lisa Lutz

Alec Wilkinson is a spare, clear, and lucid writer who works in stylistic simplicity with material that is not simple at all.

— Peter Matthiessen

A writer works from the material she has, but it comes from the unconscious. Everything is stored up and one never knows what comes…

— Rosamond Lehmann

“What a joke it is to read or hear—as I have read or heard more times than I can count—that writers ‘see more clearly’…

— Gilbert Sorrentino

A good writer always works at the impossible.

— John Steinbeck

“I heard a famous author say once that the hardest part of writing a book was making yourself sit down at the typewriter. I…

— Madeleine L'Engle

The writer works in a lonely way.

— Irwin Shaw

Like the weaver, the writer works on the wrong side of his material. He has only to do with the language, and it is…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

A good writer always works at the impossible.There is another kind who pulls in his horizons, drops his mind as one lowers rifle sights.

— John Steinbeck

The writer works on the inside and the critic works on the outside. I don't know what it looks like on the outside, sometimes.…

— Barry Lopez

That's really the essence of what any fiction writer does. Some of it is research-based, but most of it is a really long-term, imaginative,…

— Jonathan Dee

...a writer's works, like the water in an artesian well, mount to a height which is in proportion to the depth to which suffering…

— Marcel Proust

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

— Willa Cather

Phury?" "No, I'm not gay." "Don't feel like you need to hide it or anything." "I wouldn't. I'm just not." "You bi, then?

— J.R. Ward

We all don't feel like a million bucks, even if you're an actor. You just don't; not all of us feel like movie stars.

— Jimmi Simpson

When I see myself on screen, I don't even feel like it's me - it's like it's a completely different person.

— Rachel Riley