Authors Quote by Spike Milligan

“Never ask a writer what they are writing while they are writing, unless you’re prepared for sharp teeth, fangs and blood on your lap.”

— Melody Lee

“When I write, I feel like an armless leg less man with a crayon in his mouth.”

— Vonnegut

“My characters were...rebelling against something...My own bad writing. I wouldn't do for my characters what they needed for me to do - be courageous…

— John Scalzi

“Write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you are writing, and aren't writing particularly well.”

— Agatha Christie

“I disliked them all immediately, sitting around acting clever and superior. They nullified each other. The worst thing for a writer is to know…

— Charles Bukowski

“The questions that I ask myself, I think they're very much to do with reality. I would really like to have had the guts…

— Angela Carter

“Whenever someone says, 'I love writing,' I always think, 'You probably suck at writing.”

— Bob Odenkirk

“I would really like to have had the guts and the energy and so on to be able to write about, you know, people…

— Angela Carter

“These words I write, why I decided to write them, none of it will matter”

— Emily Curtis

“Always remember that writing is an alliance between author and reader. With every line we put down on the page, we need to leave…

— Hal Zina Bennett

“It is strange to hear my words Read back to me. I don't think I wrote them To have them ever leave the page.…

— Stasia Ward Kehoe

“...you can't write well with only the nice parts of your character, and only about nice things. And I don't want even to try…

— Alison Lurie