Great Quote by Mike D

Writers have to get used to launching something beautiful and watching it crash and burn. They also have to learn when to let go…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The creative process requires a period of boredom, of being stuck. That's actually a very uncomfortable period that a lot of people mistake for…

— Graham Linehan

It's hard to resist the magical thinking that the work habits of great writers are the key to their greatness.

— Zoë Heller

Writers always have confidence issues - it comes with the territory. We never know where we fit in, or what the actual value of…

— R. A. Salvatore

For me, the process of writing a novel happens mostly in your head before you actually start writing.

— Dan Chaon

Many writers are afraid of writing something bad, so they dont try or give up when their efforts dont lead to a masterpiece right…

— Lauren Tarshis

There are just so many options that people have. But as a writer, you'll drive yourself crazy, if you worry about that too much.…

— Carlton Cuse

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

I always worried that the creative well would dry up. I was sure that if I wrote a book a year, I would eventually…

— Kelley Armstrong

I think what holds people up in creative processes is the expectation of what it is they're doing. It's also the sense of judgement,…

— Antony Hegarty

A lot of people, I think, harbor some kind of ambition to write a novel - they say, 'One day I'm going to write…

— Alex Garland

I think something happens with age. And I find this really a lot in what I read from certain art critics: For people who…

— Marc Jacobs