I feel that the world needs writers. We need to know…

The world needs writers. We will always be necessary. There are few professions that can claim that distinction.

— Rod McKuen

Fiction needs writers and readers, and writers should cultivate both.

— Laura Lippman

“Writers rarely set out to be national writers. They need small, intimate worlds, full of details; the macro scale of countries, especially those as…

— Saadat Hasan Manto

“The fact is that as writers we need to make our mark. But, to do that, we must help our words make their mark.…

— Suyog Ketkar

“We need to get to the heart of each heart issue—and we can’t do it. Only the Maker can. The world needs #Jesus.”

— Eric Samuel Timm

One of the biggest problems for beginning writers is this need to over-explain.

— Scarlett Thomas

Writers need restrictions. If somebody just says, "Hey, do you want to write a novel, or an article, or a movie, or a short…

— Mitchell Hurwitz

Writers need to be tough. This is not for the weak of will. And we have to realize that, yeah, it's never good enough.…

— David Morrell

As writers we need to crack open language.

— Natalie Goldberg

“Some writers need to sink in order to feel what their characters feel; in order to write their characters with the truest feeling possible.…

— Lori Lifsey

Young writers need to be encouraged to write - just write - with no restrictions on form, style or content.

— Kelley Armstrong

“Ron Carlson says, 'The most undervalued craft device that fiction writers need is empathy. You need to be able to actually imagine what your…

— Barbara DeMarco-Barrett

The muscles that writers need for film are very different from TV muscles. Now, when I hire the writers and put the writers' room…

— M. Night Shyamalan

“Writers need their writing; they need their imaginary worlds in order to find piece in, or make sense of, the real world.”

— Terry Brooks

all creative writers need a certain amount of time when they're creating something where nobody should criticize them at all - at all. Even…

— Gena Rowlands