For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people all around him.
Robert M. Pirsig
I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a... →
Frederik Pohl
I'm probably the least cerebral guy you're ever going to meet as a writer.
Donald Ray Pollock
God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.
Dennis Potter
The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better to do, like I've got an... →
Jerry Pournelle
Write a lot. And finish what you write. Don't join writer's clubs and go sit around having coffee reading pieces of your manuscript to... →
To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.
Lawrence Clark Powell
I used to want to be a war photographer, and I used to want to be a ballerina and a comedian. I used to want to be a writer. I invalidated myself;... →
Cat Power
I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the... →
Richard Powers
In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.