Care Quote by Sue Grafton

One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position…

— E. L. Doctorow

I try not to think too much about my writing process - I tend to feel my way forward and find more insights that…

— Nick Petrie

Read a lot, finding out what kind of writing turns you on, in order to develop a criterion for your own writing. And then…

— Rosemary Daniell

One of your jobs as a writer is to cut out the noise. All you have is your instincts and your process.

— Chris Chibnall

You write to suit some sense in yourself and trust that that will resonate with a certain wider readership.

— Anna Quindlen

I have a great amount of confidence and faith in my abilities to write. There are other areas of my life where I'm not…

— James Frey

My best writing has to do with an internal process that I'm working out unconsciously and put into my characters.

— Lyle Kessler

You just go straight for the reality of the situation. So when I sit down to write, I find myself judging it as I'm…

— Lennon Parham

“People often ask me what advice I have for writers, and I reply that the most important responsibility I believe a writer has is…

— Clive Barker

Writing is one of the main ways that I process the experience.

— Jennifer Pharr Davis

I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it.

— Lucinda Williams

It's a complex thing when you're writing a novel, because so much of it is conscious and planned and deliberate, and so much of…

— Benjamin Alire Saenz