Clear Quote by Orhan Pamuk

The writers secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.

— Orhan Pamuk

A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A…

— Maurice Blanchot

Here's the secret of writing: there is no secret.

— Ralph Fletcher

I don't know what the secret is when I am writing it - it really is a surprise to me.

— Lee Child

I can't explain inspiration. A writer is either compelled to write or not. And if I waited for inspiration I wouldn't really be a…

— Toni Morrison

“as only an insider can, and he brings that expertise to his prose, creating one of the most truthful, accurate, and tension-filled suspense novels…

— Garret Holms

The more closely the author thinks of why he wrote, the more he comes to regard his imagination as a kind of self-generating cement…

— Richard Wright

A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.

— Anatole France

The writer is a writer because he cannot help it. It is a compulsion.

— Edna Ferber

“Quite often, too, a writer who has for a time been believed to possess a great store of ordinarily profound ideas, and who is…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it.

— Willie Morris

Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too…

— Leonard Bernstein