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A. Bronson Alcott
Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth; never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially.
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Agatha Christie
The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.
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Albert Camus
Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
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Albert Pike
The spoken discourse may roll on strongly as the great tidal wave; but, like the wave, it dies at last feebly on the sands. It is heard by few, remembered by still fewer, and fades away, like an echo in the mountains, leaving no token of power. It is the written human speech, that gave power and permanence to human thought.
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Alfred Kazin
In a very real sense, the writer writes in order to teach himself; to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratifications, is a curious anticlimax.
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Alfred Kazin, Think, February 1963
The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is a curious anticlimax.
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Ana?s Nin
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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Andr? Gide
What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
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Ann Beattie, Picturing Will, 1989
It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is that every day we vacillate between examining our hangnails and speculating on cosmic order.
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Anne Lamott
Plot springs from character... I've always sort of believed that these people inside of me--these characters--know who they are and what they're about and what happens, and they need me to help get it down on paper because they don't type.
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Annie Dillard The Writing Life
At its best, the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look for it. You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then--and only then--it is handed to you.
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Anonymous
A writer lives in awe of words for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator.
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Arthur Polotnik
You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you. And we edit to let the fire show through the smoke.
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Ayelet Waldman
The only difference between a writer and someone who wants to be a writer is discipline.
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