Always Quote by Sadie Jones

I think we writers are very superstitious. We don't know why it's working when it's working, so we attach cause and effect.

— Megan Abbott

I always had a superstitious fear of setting up a too well-designed writing place and then finding that the writing had absconded.

— Seamus Heaney

I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.

— Anne Tyler

Writers are said to have superstitions and little rituals. Readers have them too.

— Ian Mcewan

When you do something a little bit extreme or weird, it helps make it more interesting and more amenable to being written about.

— Robin Sloan

I'm not superstitious in my normal daily life but I get that way about writing, even though I know it's all bullshit. But I…

— Quentin Tarantino

Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff…

— David Sedaris

I have a terrible superstition of writing things down.

— Andrew Scott

There is a kind of mysticism to writing.

— Irvine Welsh

If you're actually allowing your creative part to control your writing rather than a more commercial instinct or motive, then you'll find that all…

— Emma Thompson

I'm not a wildly gifted person; I don't play an instrument or speak another language or have great accomplishments in another field, as many…

— Jennifer Egan

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