Copper Quote by Terry Pratchett

I'm a very methodical writer. Before computers, I used reams of paper and stacks of index cards.

— Frank Peretti

I write on a computer, but I've run the complete gambit. When I was very young, I wrote with a ballpoint pen in school…

— Charles de Lint

Of all the disciplines involved in making anything - TV, film or anything I do - the writing is the most valuable commodity.

— Ricky Gervais

I just want to start writing, whether or not any of it is useable or marketable.

— Lisa Kudrow

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I was a news reporter for 16 years, seven of them a foreign correspondent in the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. Perhaps the…

— Geraldine Brooks

I write exclusively using computers. Pens and typewriters can fsck right off - I wrote my first half million words in my teens on…

— Charles Stross

I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had…

— Jack Vance

Good writing , like gold , combines lustrous lucidity with high density. What this means is good writing is packed with hints.

— Eric Hoffer

As a writer, penning down personal stuff was not easy for me, as it was way too close to my heart.

— Sonali Bendre

Writing can be a frightening, distressing business, and whatever kind of structure or buffer is available can help a lot.

— Aimee Bender

I am a writer who happens to use some tools of journalism.

— Svetlana Alexievich