Involved Quote by Michael Ondaatje

It's a funny thing about writing. You get so balled up in a story idea that you lose your perspective and forget that human…

— Gary Reilly

Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.

— David Ogden Stiers

The story is always better than your ability to write it. My belief about this is that if you ever get to the point…

— Robin McKinley

Writing can make you feel a bit psychotic. You create a world, and you're sitting inside it all day long, talking to people who…

— Julian Barratt

If you are having trouble with a story, it may not be an issue with the quality of the writing - there may just…

— Michael Winter

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

Writing is taking a risk, and it is actually fighting invisible and invincible enemies. They are over-confidence, stupidity, expectation and narcissism.

— Andrea Hirata

Writing is like a little hole in reality that you can go through and you can get out and you can be someplace else…

— Stephen King

Sometimes the people around you really affect what you write.

— Susan Tedeschi

If you want to be a good writer, make sure you read. I'm amazed by how many people don't bother to do that.

— Mitch Albom

One of the things that's complicated about writing anything is that it's an act of narcissism, and then of course once it sails out…

— Bill Ayers

A lot of being a writer doesn't have anything to do with writing. It's ironic - I have to squeeze the books in, even…

— Augusten Burroughs