Degenerates Quote by Sara Gruen

It took time to learn that the hard thing about writing is to let the story write itself, while one sits at the typewriter…

— Richard Bach

“By living, thinking, even dreaming the story in one continuous process, ideas came faster and faster. Sometimes the typewriter keys would fly so fast…

— Walter B Gibson

“For most writers, reading is also a very intense experience; they don’t read so much as compete. The writer measure’s himself against every text…

— Betsy Lerner

take a writer away from his typewriter and all you have left is the sickness which started him typing in the beginning

— Charles Bukowski

Writing is always a process of discovery—I never know the end, or even the events on the next page, until they happen. There’s a…

— Kim Edwards

“Writing had never become routine for him, but remained a constant surprise. He was always surprised at how much fun it was, once it…

— Nora Roberts

“Writing is like sculpturing words out of a block of imagination. Sentences chisel the story, then characters make it their own.”

— Federico Chini

The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is dissatisfied with…

— Paul Johnson

“The words of his various writing instructors and professional mentors over the years came back to him at times like these, and he found…

— Vincent H. O'Neil

“I don’t like writers whose writing is so obvious that I can predict what he’ll write while I’m still taking in his current thoughts.…

— Jarod Kintz

“The exact same text was slightly different to read when viewed on the printed pages rather than on the word processor's screen. The feel…

— Haruki Murakami

Writing is a way of drifting within my own mind: almost a solitary process, so to speak.

— Twinkle Khanna