Fall Quote by Seth Grahame-Smith

If there is any difficulty in what I write, it is because of the material I use. The thought is always simple.

— James Joyce

Once your mind is caught on the right snag, there's nothing so hard about the mechanics of writing.

— Anne Tyler

It doesn't seem like I write the material it seems like the material comes to me and I write it down.

— John Pinette

Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.

— Stephen Fry

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

You have to get inside the people you are writing about. You have to go below the surface. And that's to a very large…

— David McCullough

The writing is always the easy part, provided I can get the good material. It's the getting of the good material that's a challenge.

— Mary Roach

Ninety percent of my material is made on stage, but I feel like you're missing something by abandoning sitting down to write entirely.

— Tom Segura

A writer's brain is like a magician's hat. If you're going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it…

— Louis L'Amour

Writing is very much like bricklaying. You learn to put one brick on top of another and spread the mortar so thick.

— Red Smith

That's how writing works, at least for me: even the stuff that doesn't work out gets funneled into the stuff that does work out.

— John Green

I take some pains to learn the material beforehand. I have a bunch of tricks I use to try and hit the ground running.…

— Colm Feore