Beauty Quote by Sue Grafton

Writing on a computer feels like a recipe for writer's block. I can type so fast that I run out of thoughts, and then…

— Chad Harbach

“In the seventies I used to work in the bedroom of my flat at a little table. I worked in longhand with a fountain…

— Ian McEwan

Somehow writing has always seemed to me to have an element of performance.

— Joan Didion

When I'm actually writing by hand, I get more of a sense of the rhythm of sentences, of syntax. The switch to the computer…

— Natasha Trethewey

When I first began writing, it was not in screenwriting but in poetry. That form was so evocative, all about the image and the…

— Lisa Joy

With non-fiction writing I feel like I'm confined and driven by what actually happened. That makes the "plot". So it's a process of getting…

— George Saunders

You have to have an eye and a feeling for where things go. Writing visually, writing textually, writing sonically. Text is visual for me…

— Masha Tupitsyn

When you are writing literary writing, you are communicating something subtextual with emotions and poetry. The prose has to have a voice; it's not…

— Joyce Carol Oates

What I find is that many times when I work with chance, with indeterminacy, I am more open to experience, less prone to a…

— Sergio Chejfec

What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of…

— David Foster Wallace

Ever since high school I've been writing in a spiral notebook, in pencil. Everything looks too polished on a computer when you start writing,…

— Lily King

I feel that the act of writing, in and of itself, is a tool towards probing that which you wouldn't without that pen in…

— Paul Auster