Always working Quote by Sefi Atta

I'm constantly striving to break through to something new. You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard…

— Al Pacino

I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once -- I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck…

— Dan Chaon

While I'm working on something, every single part of me is in it. But then, once it's done, I leave that place behind. I…

— Jim James

I get very involved in my characters. Sometimes I have a very hard time separating my characters from my life.

— Alexia Fast

I think my work is like a spiral: you keep coming back on yourself, but you're at a different place. It's like reading 'Nineteen…

— Cornelia Parker

I find it really difficult to even articulate things that I've done in the past. I express myself through the characters that I play,…

— Guy Pearce

I pay attention to what's going on around me. I'm always looking for new energy, new talent, new voices. When you do that I…

— Madonna Ciccone

On every new project, I try to write in a different way and see if there's a new side of myself I haven't explored.

— Ludovico Einaudi

I think I'm always changing as a writer and trying new things.

— Frankie Cosmos

With my writing, because I live it, I have to be consumed by it, and that means you have to forget your other life,…

— Paullina Simons

Different things work for different people. One thing I've realized, though, is that the work that I've done on myself outside of my work…

— Scarlett Johansson

Eventually the bad stuff I'm writing turns into better stuff. Other times, I've just walked away from what I was working on, and figured…

— Margaret Haddix