Our own lives always influence the way we write.

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.

— Stephen King

“You have the power to affect lives! Your influence is spreading.”

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

It's good to find common ground with people. When you find common ground and you see things from other people's perspective, you can have…

— Victoria Osteen

What we've learned is there's no right way to write a song.

— Susan Tedeschi

If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: write it.

— Ambrose Bierce

The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other…

— Anonymous

The way I write is this: I write about a thousand words a day, a little bit more. The next morning, I read those…

— Walter Mosley

As a writer, even as a child, long before what I wrote began to be published, I developed a sense that meaning itself was…

— Joan Didion

Kabuki is the way that I so often write; Noh is how I would write if I were more 'spiritual,' more understated, or perhaps…

— William T. Vollmann

The way I write is really like putting one foot in front of the other. I really let the characters do most of the…

— Quentin Tarantino

The way you write affects what you say.

— Norman Mailer

Half the people tell me, 'I love 'Go All the Way,' but why do you have to write all those schlocky ballads.' And half…

— Eric Carmen

Whatever works for the piece I'm thinking about is the way I write.

— Glenn Branca

I fortunately have a good memor, and that helps a lot in the way I write.

— Ruskin Bond

Hemingway said the only way to write about a place is to leave it.

— David Guterson