Digging Quote by Ray Bradbury

“The inexperienced reader wants the essentially familiar combined with superficial novelty. Each story must have a slightly new setting or twist or "gimmick," though…

— Laurence Perrine

A writer has to be driven crazy to help him to see. A writer needs his poisons.

— Philip Roth

You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or despair ... Come to it any way but lightly.

— Stephen King

“Anyone longing to become a writer, for even a few moments of his life, will vainly weave fantastic events unless he has experienced that…

— Ivan Klima

Any one who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to…

— Henry Watson Fowler

There's a really nice moment in the life of a piece of writing where the writer starts to get a feeling of it outgrowing…

— George Saunders

“The ultimate goal of any writer is to explore the lightest and darkest aspects of being. If a writer accomplishes this task, the work…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“A well-known writer said writing is like getting sick to your stomach. You throw up and clean up afterward.”

— Maija Rhee Devine

A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.

— E. B. White

“Writing is like cooking. You toss in a bunch of ingredients and hope the combination of flavors will appeal to someone's taste.”

— Dee Leone

A writer must take risks, defy the odds, be a bit obsessed and a little mad.

— Robert Cormier

“Writers don't need food. Writers can survive on coffee, idea fumes, and trifles. Rich literary trifles.”

— Ksenia Anske