Writing Aid Quotes

I, personally, have found reading a continual support to writing.

I keep a big, fat dictionary with me while writing.

I have to have music as a soundtrack to writing fiction. I listen to it at other times, too, but it helps me write.

If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat. Alone with the cat in the room where you work ... the cat will invariably get up on your desk and settle placidly under the desk lamp ... The cat will settle down and be serene, with a serenity that passes all understanding.

Music helps me immeasurably in the writing process.

I think alcohol is a good drug for me when I'm writing. I don't think I've ever had a problem with it. I can stop for a few weeks, so I think it's okay. I don't think it's good for my liver, but I do love it. It's a huge part of my life, and it makes me happy.

When I'm out and about, I'll text or email myself from my phone. A smart phone is a great tool for a writer.

It usually helps me write by reading - somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.

I don't give plots to Harold Robbins or Graham Greene, because they don't need them, but a lot of authors do.

My books are my tools, and the greater their variety and perfection the greater the help to my literary work.

I didn’t like it [computer] when I first began using it. Where it’s helped me a lot is in nonfiction which is a kind of different process. You’ve got research, you’ve got your notes, You can block out what you want to work on for the next 10 pages and put it in another file, and then you can kind of carve it into shape