Based Quote by Scott Turow

The thing about writing is that if you have the impulse, you will find the time.

— Seamus Heaney

My writing has always been a rather non-linear process. I've found if I get something down, I can listen to it and other things…

— Pauline Oliveros

Writing is thinking in slow motion.

— Walter Kaufmann

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

— Pam Houston

I write in a very strange way. Things are very fragmentary for a very long time, and then they come together very quickly near…

— Todd Rundgren

Writing about why you write is a funny business, like scratching what doesn't itch. Impulses are mysterious, and explaining them must be done with…

— Patricia Hampl

When I write, I usually follow my most inner voice, sometimes called stream of consciousness.

— Lidija Dimkovska

When the initial little impulse comes it just tends to come. I wake up in the middle of the night, or I'll be swimming…

— Mark Duplass

When things are going well, I can't write fast enough to keep up with my mind. Writing walks, speech runs and talk flies. Other…

— Dylan Moran

I think when you're a writer most of what you read influences you. The rhythms get into your head.

— Elizabeth Crook

Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions.

— Graham Nash

What is the ultimate impulse to write? Because all this is going to vanish.

— James Salter