Always Quote by Mary H.K. Choi

Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.

— Stephen Sondheim

I'm constantly dogged with a feeling of fraudulence, so if somebody tells me they like what I've written, then I immediately begin to think…

— Glen Duncan

What's hard, in hacking as in fiction, is not writing, it's deciding what to write.

— Neal Stephenson

When you're writing, you're demented, alone, and full of doubt. It feels dangerous.

— Joan Juliet Buck

Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff…

— David Sedaris

When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.

— Calvin Trillin

Writing is nearly always a matter of finding whatever your brain needs to trick it into being creative, and in my case, a tiny…

— Emma Donoghue

Once your mind is caught on the right snag, there's nothing so hard about the mechanics of writing.

— Anne Tyler

Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul.

— Richard Flanagan

To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.

— Anne Rice

Anytime you write something, you go through so many phases. You go through the 'I'm a Fraud' phase. You go through the 'I'll Never…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway.

— Joseph O'Neill