Life Quote by Mark Leyner

I find that when I am actually writing, I enter a zone of concentration too small to admit my troubles.

— Roger Ebert

“The aspiration of all writers should be to avoid leaving fissures in their work, to make sure that everything is properly secured so readers…

— Marcos Giralt Torrente

“Writing fluency sometimes needs an intense agony somewhere in your mind”

— Munia Khan

“The greatest and most difficult task of a writer is bridging the gap between reality...and the unimaginable”

— Jason W. Blair

The most striking fault in work by young or beginning novelists, submitted for criticism, is irrelevance--due either to infatuation or indecision. To direct such…

— Elizabeth Bowen

“Equanimity can be hard to talk about.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“I don't think you can reach your potential as a writer unless you're a passionate reader, AND read passionately.”

— Michelle D. Kwasney

“It’s imperative that writing consists of not living up to your own taste. Of leaving the world behind so you can hold fast to…

— Durga Chew-Bose

You see, the contemporary writer must write through his intimations of unease, while trying to elucidate them.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“When a writer is able to experience the whole range of human emotions, from deep depressions to glorious highs, it creates a whole inventory…

— David Perry

“Frustration of mind can be revel through writing something even if it will be never read.”

— Kartik Mehta

“Every skillful writer foregrounds notable aspects of experience, details that might otherwise be lost in the mass of data that continuously bathes our senses…

— Alain de Botton