Way Quote by Margaret Mahy

“People say to me they don't have time to write and I just look at them like they're crazy. Like I have time to…

— D.A. Nelson

Every writer, by the way he uses the language, reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacities, his bias…Avoid the elaborate, the pretentious,…

— William Strunk, Jr

“Slowly I discovered that writing was my way of coping with chaos and my cry of freedom, my homage to beauty. Because stories have…

— Vittorio Vandelli

There's this great kind of spooky dance that happens that I can't access any other way. I think most of us are given kind…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

The similarity between the big directors I've worked with is that they allow the writer to find a way of doing what they want…

— Steven Zaillian

The writer's way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning…

— Dorothy Parker

“There is a reason why I am a writer... sometimes it is the only way you can get people to listen to you!”

— Phil Wohl

When I wrote and got out of the way, writing did writing.” (p.90)

— Natalie Goldberg

“Sleep just gets in the way of the writing I want to do.”

— Celine Garcia

In a crazy way, writing is a lot like any kind of very complex game - like chess, where you have the knowledge as…

— Adam Ross

Longhand isn't well suited to my way of writing. I tend to end up with dozens of pages of crossings-out and margin scribbles just…

— Steven Hall

Once I get my writing done, then I can turn my attention elsewhere - and not the other way around. The writing has to…

— Brad Listi