I've always written by hand. Mostly with a fountain pen, but sometimes with a pencil - especially for corrections.
Paul Auster
Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty.
The first two books that I did by myself were long stories in verse. I knew I could do that because I'd written a lot in verse. But, verse... →
Natalie Babbitt
I'm not an academic; I'm just a bookish Joe who gets passionate about certain writers and suddenly wants to read everything they've ever... →
Blake Bailey
From Shakespeare to Robi Thakur, everyone has written stories about people and incidents around them. There is no creativity minus reality... →
Vidya Balan
In every thriller written about Washington, particularly after 9/11, there are good guys and there are bad guys, and there's no gray area at all.
David Baldacci
The British have a unique relationship with horses. They are etched into our landscape in chalk, they have been written about, painted, sung about... →
Clare Balding
Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
Arthur Balfour
I think I'm less the writer than I'm the written.
John Banville
I must have done everything I had. You go through years where you go through everything you've ever written.
Todd Barry