Believe Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin

A writer's brain is like a magician's hat. If you're going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it…

— Louis L'Amour

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.

— Thomas Mann

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other…

— Neil Gaiman

I think some people think that writers read and read and read, get the information, and then write. That's not how it works. Often,…

— Anthony Doerr

Writing is a concentrated form of thinking...a young writer sees that with words he can place himself more clearly into the world. Words on…

— Don DeLillo

Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.

— Elbert Hubbard

You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.

— Orson Scott Card

Most writers do similar things in their minds. It's how the mind works, basically.

— Raymond Pettibon

Writers, like most human beings, are adaptable creatures. They can learn to accept subordination without growing fond of it. No writer can forever stand…

— Rod Serling

Writing is always a process of discovery—I never know the end, or even the events on the next page, until they happen. There’s a…

— Kim Edwards

Writing is transmogrifying, not just for the reader but also for the author; an author becomes someone he or she isn't by living the…

— Robert J. Sawyer

You go out into the world, you read everything you can read, you imitate the things you love, and you learn how hard it…

— Russell Banks