Characteristics Quote by Will Self

The lovely thing about writing is, well, two things. One, writing fiction allows us to bring an order to our lives that doesn't exist…

— Octavia E. Butler

Writing is, of course, a solitary occupation. But for many writers, myself included, it's through writing that we make certain vital connections.

— Elizabeth Berg

Writers are a fascinating breed, because there are so many kinds of them, they are made by so many circumstances, conditions, and mysteries, and…

— William Saroyan

Most of the writers I know are weird hybrids. There's a strong streak of egomania coupled with extreme shyness. Writing's kind of like exhibitionism…

— David Foster Wallace

Some people think that writers are innately solitary and that there's a kind of romance to that solitariness. I tend to think that what…

— Richard Ford

What's so exciting and terrifying about the writing process is that it really is an act of exploration and discovery. With all of us,…

— Andre Dubus

“Writing is about allowing yourself to become a vessel of creativity. Writers are avatars of creation. We have tender hearts, and strong emotions. It's…

— Sai Marie Johnson

writing is the loneliest job in the world. There's always that frustrating chasm to bridge between the concept and the writing of it. We're…

— Fannie Hurst

Writers are socially observant. We find people endlessly fascinating, and real life is mysterious. Sometimes it's hard to stop staring at the strut and…

— Julianna Baggott

I think many people have wonderful stories inside them and the talent to tell those stories. But the writing life, with its isolation and…

— Ellen Ullman

I write because I have always been curious about what it would feel like to be someone else, in a different situation. Fiction is…

— Gillian Cross

“Fiction is an act of willfulness, a deliberate effort to reconcile, to rearrange, to reconstitute nothing short of reality itself. Even among the most…

— Jhumpa Lahiri