Composition Quote by Rick Moody

I am not one of those writers that it just flows out of effortlessly. I have to sit and write and rewrite and sometimes…

— Princess Superstar

I like to know for whom I'm writing - it makes the composition easier to do.

— Lalo Schifrin

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

— Henry David Thoreau

I have tried to explore the little talent I have for writing.

— Cyril Cusack

Writing about craft has forced me to think more about my own writing technique, and to break down my process in ways that have…

— David B. Coe

There's a half-conscious state you enter when you're actually generating prose, and you are simply a better writer in that place. In fact it's…

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

I am not a particularly natural writer. I am not a person who can write in paragraphs the way some writers do. For me,…

— Yann Martel

I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make…

— Anthony Bourdain

I found it incredibly challenging to write clear prose that had the dynamism that I wanted.

— Alex Lemon

Composing is an extension of my being, skills and knowledge.

— KK

My hobby is my profession, and therefore, I keep on composing creatively.

— Himesh Reshammiya

There's a level of discipline I use as a writer, designed to get better at what I'm doing, that requires quite a lot of…

— Anonymous