Art Quote by Paula Vogel

Art is not difficult because it wishes to be difficult, rather because it wishes to be art. However much the writer might long to…

— Donald Barthelme

“Visual and performing artists produce art that lives in the present world. The art of the writer exists in another dimension. Through strings of…

— Mindie Burgoyne

“I do not possess the ability to draw or paint. I can’t sing or dance. I can’t knit or sew. But I am an…

— Aubrey Becker

“David Foster Wallace: What writers have is a license and also the freedom to sit—to sit, clench their fists, and make themselves be excruciatingly…

— David Lipsky

There's a certain kind of neurological makeup that goes along with being a writer, and having been in the room with a few other…

— David Foster Wallace

When a good writer is having fun, the audience is almost always having fun too.

— Stephen King

Being a writer but also having been raised the way I was, I tend to turn to books for answers.

— Alexandra Fuller

As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.

— Neil Gaiman

There are few things, apparently, more helpful to a writer than having once been a weird little kid.

— Katherine Paterson

I think I have become a better writer since having children. It improves creativity, particularly because once you have children it makes you realise…

— Louise Doughty

When people ask me what qualifies me to be a writer for children, I say I was once a child. But I was not…

— Katherine Paterson

“One of the best perks of being a writer is having a safe place to park all the crazy crap residing in my head.”

— Coo Sweet