Bits Quote by Michael Rosen

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 a mysterious activity.

— Susan Sontag

There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.

— Joy Williams

It's misleading to think of writers as special creatures, word sorcerers who possess some sort of magical knowledge hidden from everyone else. Writers are…

— Ralph Fletcher

I suspect that every writer is secretly writing for someone.

— Brewster Ghiselin

Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is potential material…

— Terry Brooks

Writers are a fascinating breed, because there are so many kinds of them, they are made by so many circumstances, conditions, and mysteries, and…

— William Saroyan

Writers are completely out of touch with reality. Writers are a crazy person. We create conflict - for a living. We do this all…

— Joss Whedon

You know how sometimes you meet writers that are so full of themselves? They feel really proud that they wrote something . But what…

— Sandra Cisneros

Most writers are secretly worried that they're not really writers. That it's all been happenstance, something came together randomly, the letters came together, and…

— Nicholson Baker

Writing is always a process of discovery—I never know the end, or even the events on the next page, until they happen. There’s a…

— Kim Edwards

A lot of writing is everybody being revealed, but the reader should feel like only they are being revealed.

— Torrey Peters