Backache Quote by Robert Cormier

I became much more interested in plot when I really didn't consider myself a writer anymore. When I was in an art context and…

— Vito Acconci

I always think plot is what you fall back on if you can't write, to keep things going.

— Meg Rosoff

Writing is nearly always a matter of finding whatever your brain needs to trick it into being creative, and in my case, a tiny…

— Emma Donoghue

Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.

— Anthony Powell

I'm an accidental writer.

— William P. Young

I do not enjoy writing at all. If I can turn my back on an idea, out there in the dark, if I can…

— Richard Bach

Whenever I write a novel, most of the time it starts with barest slip of an idea.

— Elizabeth Berg

What I find is that many times when I work with chance, with indeterminacy, I am more open to experience, less prone to a…

— Sergio Chejfec

Writing is a sufficiently lonely and mysterious pastime that I don't begrudge myself a talisman or two, so long as they don't become ways…

— Ben Dolnick

I think something many of us grapple with are those times we dread the practice of writing, no matter the project.

— Ben Doller

I had a lot of great lakes of ignorance that I was up against, I would write what I knew in almost like islands…

— Rebecca Miller

I write to relieve an intellectual itch. I stumble across a hitherto neglected set of events, transformations, characters, or source materials from the past,…

— Linda Colley