Gone Quote by Neil Gaiman

A lot of young writers wait for inspiration. The inspiration only hits you at the desk.

— Robert Anderson

You go out into the world, you read everything you can read, you imitate the things you love, and you learn how hard it…

— Russell Banks

If you want to be a writer in the world you really have to sit down and say, 'Why do I want to do…

— Dorianne Laux

If you're a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you.

— Caitlin Flanagan

One of the wonderful things about being a writer is that you're constantly dredging up some arcane knowledge or long-forgotten experience, rediscovering old passions…

— Christina Baker Kline

Writers 'get started' the day they are born. The minds they bring into the world with them are the amazing machines their stories will…

— Lois Duncan

I've described my usual writing process as scrambling from peak to peak on inspiration through foggy valleys of despised logic. Inspiration is better when…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

The best advice that an accomplished writer could give a beginning writer is probably, "Find your slide and then grease it." Almost every writer…

— Dan Simmons

You don't know what you need when you're a young writer. You can get small slivers of critical input, advice, comments, but if you're…

— David Means

As a novelist, where do you go to tap into memories, and impressions, and sensations? It's usually, in my experience, your early life, before…

— William Boyd

I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now. I just…

— Candace Bushnell

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

— E. L. Doctorow