Quick wit Quote by Stephen King

“Writing had never become routine for him, but remained a constant surprise. He was always surprised at how much fun it was, once it…

— Nora Roberts

Farber had a huge effect on me as a writer. I don't mean I write like him. Farber is, first of all, a great…

— Greil Marcus

“He pointed to the board where the word 'alliteration' had been written in handwriting far better than mine, which on good days looks like…

— Robert Wilder

“He had become the writers' equivalent of a goldfish after years of writing 500 word articles and wondered whether mind-expanding drugs would help him…

— Owen Jones

“My father did not bring it up, but of course I knew that he had another reason to worry about my decision to write.…

— Eudora Welty

“Before that, my life was always agitated by a tangle of tricks, feints and illusions intended to outwit the countless lures that tried to…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“[A] writer’s most powerful weapon, his true strength, was his intuition, and regardless of whether he had any talent, if the critics combined to…

— Félix J. Palma

And I was troubled by the heavy-handed prose of so much psychoanalytic writing, which seemed drowned in its own concepts.

— Robert Jay Lifton

“He who would be a writer, fine, Must take a deal of pains, Must criticize his every line, And mix his ink with brains.”

— Platt Rogers Spencer

“Everyone was driven to write.It was Gorky's fault--he had announced that "literature should be written by working people",and showed with his own example that…

— Anatoli Rybakov

“The words came fast and slow, because the act of writing plunged me so wantonly down slippery avenues of thought that frequently I found…

— Leah Hager Cohen

“It's why I am a writer...To avoid the narrow mesh of Mrs Winterson's story I had to be able to tell my own.”

— Jeanette Winterson