It really helped me as a writer to understand how other…

I think having a great range of experiences in my life had helped me as a writer, particularly a writer of fiction. I have…

— Marge Piercy

I actually think it's helped me as a writer to have to act. It's only when you actually start putting yourself out that you…

— Mike White

The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right.

— Gene Weingarten

As a writer, you understand how hard it is to build up backstory for characters, so you can have impactful moments. You have to…

— Cory Barlog

“Things that only a writer would understand—you’re writing a character—you tell that character who she or he is and they stop you and make…

— Lisa Marbly-Warir

What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of the window.

— Burton Rascoe

The reason I'm a writer is to understand other people and myself more. The reason I'm a writer is to dramatize stories about human…

— Mike O'Malley

“The writer's characters must stand before us with a wonderful clarity, such continuous clarity that nothing they do strikes us as improbable behavior for…

— John Gardner

If you are not a writer, you will not understand the difficulties of writing. If you are not a writer, you will not know…

— Mem Fox

I didn't know enough as a writer to understand why I needed to do this, but I understood in a very gut way that…

— Melissa Febos

Sophisticated readers understand that writers work out their anger, their conflicts, their endless grief and rolling list of loss, through their stories. That however…

— Amy Bloom

Write what you care about and understand. Writers should never try to outguess the marketplace in search of a salable idea; the simple truth…

— Richard North Patterson

I understand that each one of us works at a different speed, and has a slightly different process. I understand that these writers are…

— Stephen King

People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nature and art, but…

— Victor Hugo

My whole life experience feeds into my writing. I think that must be true for every writer. Clearly the Army and combat were major…

— Gene Wolfe