Air Quote by Virginia Woolf

It is not merely enough to love literature if one wishes to spend one's life as a writer. It is a dangerous undertaking on…

— Harlan Ellison

If you want to be a writer in the world you really have to sit down and say, 'Why do I want to do…

— Dorianne Laux

Literature, real literature, must not be gulped down like some potion which may be good for the heart or good for the brain—the brain,…

— Vladimir Nabokov

I am not one of those writers that it just flows out of effortlessly. I have to sit and write and rewrite and sometimes…

— Princess Superstar

Writing is a solitary pursuit and I think you have to be partially at peace with yourself, but it's the other part that's usually…

— Craig Johnson

“Writing is a form of intense thinking that takes a person on a journey into previously uncharted territory of the writer’s mind.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“As a writer you slant all evidence in favor of the conclusions you want to produce and you rarely tilt in favor of the…

— Bret Easton Ellis

But once an idea for a novel seizes a writer...well, it’s like an inner fire that at first warms you and makes you feel…

— Dean Koontz

“I fancy myself a writer. And writing, in its most eloquent manner, since time became a concept indoctrinated by true troglodytes, tickles my dong;…

— Dave Matthes

The written word is weak. Many people prefer life to it. Life gets your blood going, & it smells good. Writing is mere writing,…

— Annie Dillard

Novel writing, like so many things in life, is an iterative process. You come at it again and again, working at it like you…

— Kameron Hurley

It's so easy, as a writer, to get stuck in your own head, to live in the little worlds you create. To forget that…

— Celeste Ng