“ Growing up, I used to climb out my window onto the roof and look up at the stars. There, in the quiet, I would write stories inside my head. Christy Hall
“ He, the true writer, is the department store dummy at the very center of the whole establishment, the one left alone on display all night, a price tag stapled to every piece of clothing they’ve yanked… Allan Gurganus
“ I assure you, I've come to one of those natural breaks in the book, where one can walk away and let things go on working in the subconscious. It's true, don't look so unbelieving. It means I can affor… Mary Stewart
“ There is only one way to overcome the difficulty of writing, and that is to write. Thought only becomes effective and productive at the time of writing. Amélie Nothomb
“ Most writers who are beginners, if they are honest with themselves, will admit that they are praying for a readership as they begin to write. But it should be the quality of the craft not the audience… Chinua Achebe
“ When the silence comes and the echoes of former life fades, what will have mattered will be, one made the world a bit better ‘fore their de-berthing. Writing, needs none, but the initial push of heart… Tom Althouse
“ If a writer manages to be fascinating about his own novels, then there are only two possibilities: either he is merely voicing out loud what he wrote in his book, and he is a parrot; or he is explaini… Amélie Nothomb
“ As far as you are able to gather from hints scattered through these letters, Apocryphal Power, riven by internecine battles and eluding the control of its founder, Ermes Marana, has broken into two gr… Italo Calvino
“ The writer doesn’t want to disclose or instruct or advocate, he wants to transmute and disturb. He cherishes the mystery, he cares for it like a fugitive in his cabin, his cave. He doesn’t want to tal… Joy Williams
“ Write for impact first, money second. If you do it the other way around, you’ll end up with less of either. Don Roff
“ Through the act of writing, a writer learns more about himself than he could ever imagine. Rob Bignell
“ Often as writers, we are surprised by what we learn about ourselves. It runs counter to what we’ve thought about who we are. But it is closer to the truth. Rob Bignell
“ The way my mind flows is conducive to self-learning. I do better obsessively studying various writers and writing techniques and writing theories on my own than I would do if I were in a classroom and… JM Tohline
“ I practiced law for five years and that gives you insight into a certain mind-set that maybe a lot of writers haven’t had firsthand access to. There’s an almost casual cruelty, a very low level of ove… Ben Fountain
“ . . . any one episode, or even moment, in a person’s life is so complex, with so many layers of past and present, desire and indifference, drift and drive, consciousness and unconsciousness, that lang… Ben Fountain
