Books Quote by Steven Wright

Something like going to get the newspaper can increase your writing efficiency by taking you away from the material. When I'm doing other things,…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

Sometimes I sit down and write, but I can write in my head line by line.

— Kodie Shane

When I write, it's like watching a movie in my head.

— Simone Elkeles

When I write, it's almost like it really sets in my brain. I don't ever go back and read it.

— Jon Rahm

I tend to forget what I'm doing will ever be read while I'm writing it, and just get on with the task at hand.

— Garth Ennis

Writing, of course, it's not all in your head. Not talking about the 'manual' act of typing here either, but that, when your fiction's…

— Stephen Graham Jones

I think when you're a writer most of what you read influences you. The rhythms get into your head.

— Elizabeth Crook

When I look back at what I've written and try to explain it, it doesn't help, but it helps to be in a process…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

If you think about writing a book, or when I did, it seems daunting, but when I began writing, it just started flowing.

— Jimmy O. Yang

The important thing is to write when your brain is at its best. Work edits or do outside reading with the rest of the…

— Douglas Brunt

I'm always looking at ways of shaking up the writing experience because I think it helps.

— Michael Connelly

Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.

— Richard Ford