Writing Quote by William S. Burroughs

“Writers, even unpublished writers, have a tendency not to notice what’s going on around them when they are the center of attention.”

— Gary Reilly

“It's part of a writer's job to be nosy about everything.”

— Sara Sheridan

“The fact of the matter is that readers and audiences are never blank slates: individuals see in a work whatever they need to see…

— Christopher Bram

“I hope to turn my reader into the quiet person in the corner who, even when no one is telling them anything, sees everything.”

— damali ayo

“Keeping my eyes on the page and my head in someone else’s story is about the only distraction that works.”

— Inglath Cooper

“Remember, when we're lost in a story, we're not passively reading about something that's happening to someone else.”

— Lisa Cron

I think writers tend to hear a different message from the ones our friends and acquaintances intend. We see what's revealed, which makes us…

— Tom Barbash

Writers, some of us, may tend to see things before other people do, things that are right there but aren't noticed in the way…

— Don DeLillo

“You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.”

— Neil Gaiman

“When we don’t tell those we love about what’s really going on or listen carefully to what they have to say, we tend to…

— Sharon Salzberg

“They write for people who read with the surface of their minds, people with reading habits that make the smallest demands on them, people…

— William Gaddis

“But to those who can’t see it yet, everything comes in stories, creating readiness, nudging them toward receptive insight.”

— Eugene H. Peterson