Artificiality Quote by Will Self

There are so many other people involved in the making of a play or a television series or whatever... even if you're a novelist…

— Peter Morgan

... there is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just more and more fun.

— Gish Jen

It's intuitive in terms of when I read a piece of material or I hear about a project. I'm a writer, so I've written…

— Matt Damon

It's always the case for writers that when there are limitations, you have the opportunity for your creativity really to blossom and to become…

— Emily Barton

I think when you're writing prose there's a lot of attendant description and that's were I used to really go bananas. With a screenplay…

— Diablo Cody

Much like film, authors spend a fair amount of time alone in the creative process, tossing their work out into what can feel like…

— Mary Pilon

I'm bothered, as a reader, when I feel the writer is filling in too much. Again, whether it's nonfiction or fiction, I think writers…

— Lynne Tillman

The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.

— Iain McGilchrist

It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.

— Lawrence Durrell

The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no…

— Cyril Connolly

Fiction is able to do one thing better than any other art form: it is able to convey a convincing sense of what is…

— Arthur Phillips

It's hard to make something that's interesting. It's really, really hard. It's like a law of nature, a law of aerodynamics, that anything that's…

— Ira Glass