Calculation Quote by Stewart Stafford

I'm not proselytizing my method. I don't believe that one writer should tell other writers how to write.

— John Irving

Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work.

— Cheryl Strayed

There are all kinds of writers and all kinds of methods, and any method that helps you to say what you want to say…

— William Zinsser

Writing, for me, is a combination of objective and subjective approach. You take an objective approach at times to get you through things, and…

— Christopher Nolan

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

— Henry David Thoreau

The first thing you have to know about writing is that it is something you must do everyday. There are two reasons for this…

— Walter Mosley

Writing can't be too calculated. My best writing is when I set it aside, move on. It's not when I'm crafting a sentence, thinking…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

Write in a disciplined manner, but write in a way that is natural to the individual's thought processes.

— Donald McKay

Most writers I know move back and forth between the rational and the intuitive, though there are some who approach writing very rationally, and…

— Peter Turchi

“Writing is a craft and needs constant practice.”

— Patricia Highsmith

Whereas to write, all you need is paper and an idea, so I felt that writing might be my stepping stone.

— Curtis Hanson

Writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

— Don DeLillo