Better Quote by Siri Hustvedt

All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.

— Colm Toibin

A lot of writing takes place in the subconscious, and it's bound to have an effect.

— George R. R. Martin

Keep your paragraphs short. Writing is visual - it catches the eye before it has a chance to catch the brain.

— William Zinsser

“Writers write. Period. No matter how hard it is. One word after another. Sometimes the sentences spill quickly from our fingertips, and other times…

— Debra Dixon

Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.

— Carlos Fuentes

Writing is all about self-editing; it's all about being present being aware of what's happening

— Joan Armatrading

I think if a writer is not endeavoring to expand and alter consciousness in himself and in his readers, he is not doing much…

— William S. Burroughs

I have so little control over the act of writing that it's all I can do to remain conscious.

— David Rakoff

“Writing is a disciplined, methodical, and systematic method that a person can logically employ to awaken dominant layers of consciousness.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

A writer has an inescapable voice. I think it's inherent in the nature, and I think that we don't control it anymore than we…

— Horton Foote

So much of a novelist's writing, as I have said, takes place in the unconscious: in those depths the last word is written before…

— Graham Greene

It's something that's difficult to explain but I think all writers work this way to some extent, whether we're aware of it or not.…

— Mary J. Miller