Assuming Quote by Sara Sheridan

Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.

— Elbert Hubbard

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other…

— Neil Gaiman

Some writers sit down every day for two or three hours, at least, to write, whether they are in the mood or not. Others…

— Robert Hilburn

Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.

— Wole Soyinka

Part of being a writer is just getting it in your bones, getting the muscle memory down, just doing it.

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

Writers spend all their time preoccupied with just the things that their fellow men and women spend their time trying to avoid thinking about.…

— Harry Crews

People on the outside think there's something magical about writing, that you go up in the attic at midnight and cast the bones and…

— Harlan Ellison

People don't become writers because they love having spontaneous, real-world interactions with living people as bodies with clothes in time.

— Elif Batuman

“Thinking clearly is a conscious act that writers must force on themselves,”

— William Knowlton Zinsser

I always think, when I'm in motion, writing seems like the most natural thing.

— Pam Houston

When someone's a writer, it's very creative and moody, and you think of someone walking around the office in pajamas thinking of ideas.

— Stephanie Savage

Writers are socially observant. We find people endlessly fascinating, and real life is mysterious. Sometimes it's hard to stop staring at the strut and…

— Julianna Baggott