About Quote by Tom Stoppard

Writing about writing is a bit like talking about a conversation you are having; it tends to obscure desperation about where the next word…

— Renata Adler

It is not possible to write clearly enough to avoid being misrepresented by people who are sufficiently determined to do so.

— Karl Popper

I don't like writing - it's so difficult to say what you mean. It's much easier to edit other people's writing and help them…

— Robert Gottlieb

I'm not that guy who thinks I have all the answers. Writing is a means of communicating, and if enough people say, 'I don't…

— Noah Hawley

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

— John Irving

A lot of people talk about writing. The secret is to write, not talk.

— Jackie Collins

I never question the way I write. Writing is the only thing that's without seams for me. It's an effort to talk because my…

— Augusten Burroughs

I don't think I'd ever write anything that I don't also direct just because it's so hard and painful to write as it is.

— Cary Fukunaga

Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.

— Agatha Christie

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean…

— Gwendolyn Brooks

Whenever you talk about writing I think you have to remember that it all has a big question mark over it - every word…

— George Saunders

I don't really like questions about the writing process, because the truth is I don't know how I write.

— Elizabeth Berg