When I found out I could write I was shocked! I didn't…

I was shocked that someone I didn’t even know would take the time to pray for me.

— Divine

I tell you what, I was so shocked because I didn't think the ball had enough to get out. It's an absolutely incredible feeling.…

— Mark McGwire

“What?" my partner asked suddenly. I jumped, guilty at having been caught staring. But, hell, I thought, might as well ask. "Are you two--you…

— Jaye Wells

You'd only write what you know and what you know is what you do and the people you know. So you'd write about them…

— Carl Reiner

“Advice? I don’t have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you’re writing, you’re a writer. Write like you’re a goddamn death row inmate…

— Alan Wilson Watts

“In the same way there is much, much in all of us, but we do not know it. No one ever calls it out…

— Brenda Ueland

I'm not so sure that I can teach people how to, you know, write dialogue or create plot or anything like that. But if…

— Colum McCann

It's a gift that I have and I became good at it. When I heard my first song I didn't even know that I…

— Rico Love

“It’s easier to start writing if you have something to write about, rather than staring at a blank screen thinking about nothing because you’re…

— Jarod Kintz

“I'd like to know how anyone can write the truth about us if we've never met.”

— Sarah Miller

Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that's wrong. They know less, that's why they write. Trying…

— Margaret Atwood

Until you know who you are you can’t write.

— Salman Rushdie

“To be a great Writer, Write what you know & Write what other writers wouldn't write about.”

— Maryann Gestwicki

I think the complaint that I hear most often from kids, even kids who like to write is that don't know what to write…

— Ann M. Martin

“I know that I can write, a couple of my stories are good, my descriptions of the 'Secret Annex' are humorous, there's a lot…

— Anne Frank