Cybersecurity Quote by Neal Stephenson

It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.

— Edmund White

You always feel like a hack and a fraud when you're writing. It's just how it goes.

— Mary H.K. Choi

Hacking involves a different way of looking at problems that no one's thought of.

— Walter O'Brien

Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.

— Vincent Canby

Hacking is like sex. You get in, you get out, and hope that you didn't leave something that can be traced back to you.

— Anonymous

Novelists who get shitty about screenwriting invariably can't do it, or they can't hack it in the world of what's really, in truth, very…

— William Monahan

The only difficulty is to know what bits to choose and what to leave out. Novel-writing is not creation, it is selection.

— Winifred Holtby

I've always thought that writing isn't really that hard. It's having a good idea that's hard.

— Lyle Lovett

Writing is hard, even for authors who do it all the time.

— Roger Angell

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

— Anne Tyler

To see a hacker actually hacking is not the most interesting thing visually, and it's pretty boring as an actor: a hacker taps on…

— Finn Wolfhard

I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways.

— John Milius