Writer Quote by Wayson Choy

I am married to a writer, and this - writing - is an odd enterprise. It's something we both support very strongly.

— Siri Hustvedt

I'm not so sure that I can teach people how to, you know, write dialogue or create plot or anything like that. But if…

— Colum McCann

“You know that you are a writer if you are imaginative. You know that you are a writer if you are curious. You know…

— Jon Scieszka Katie DiCamillo

There's a mystery to writing, and you don't really know where most of it comes from.

— Neil Diamond

My subconscious does the writing; I don't have control over that.

— Augusten Burroughs

I love writing but don't get a huge amount of time to do it.

— Lennie James

The language has got to be fully alive - I can't bear dull, flaccid writing myself and I don't see why any reader should…

— Helen Dunmore

I've had to tell people that I'm not co-writing. I don't want to do it and that's that.

— Jade Bird

One of my fears is not writing. I don't know how to do anything else.

— Paul Theroux

I try to make sure that, when I'm writing, I don't put too much Cody in it. But I don't want to lose it…

— Cody Johnson

I like writing because I can do it anywhere, and I don't need money to do it.

— Viv Albertine

“The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon.”

— Robert Cormier