Building Quote by Matt Smith

As a writer, you paint strokes and leave suggestions so readers can create their own pictures. That allows you to know someone by a…

— Mary Higgins Clark

It is often we come the closest to the essence of an artist... in his or her pocket notebooks and travel sketchbooks... where written…

— Eugene Delacroix

Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.

— Anthony Powell

Writing is very improvisational. It's like trying to fix a broken sewing machine with safety pins and rubber bands. A lot of tinkering.

— Margaret Atwood

Writers and painters alike are in the business of consulting their own imaginations, and stimulating the imaginations of others. Together, and separately, they celebrate…

— Lynne Truss

Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.

— Moliere

You hear a lot of writers talk like writing is therapy or some kind of magic art, but it's a business.

— Robert Ben Garant

Over and over I feel as if my characters know who they are, and what happens to them, and where they have been and…

— Anne Lamott

When I just write something, it's usually because I love it, I love the material, but I feel like I really need a creative…

— Nicholas Stoller

To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing - a hand worker in an era of mass production.

— Susan Sontag

You can tell a lot about a person by their handwriting.

— Pete Doherty

Writing is self-reinforcing. Don't make a fetish out of it, and don't surrender to the myth of the garret, or the myth of the…

— Jay Lake