I don't think that I would ever, while writing, think to…

I like it when characters are some combination of appealing and maybe flawed or self-interested. I think in terms of scenes, and what I…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

Characters on stage should be flat, like clothes in a fashion show: what you get should be no more than what you see. Psychological…

— Elfriede Jelinek

When I'm writing, I think about the garden, and when I'm in the garden I think about writing. I do a lot of writing…

— Jamaica Kincaid

“I wanted to write not because I thought writing would bring about change. I simply loved it. Writing, in itself, allowed me to dream…

— Kyung-Sook Shin

what a writer does is to try to make sense of life. I think that's what writing is, I think that's what painting is.…

— Nadine Gordimer

To write more from memory and to be more creative - I think - because I am still writing about Los Angeles but I…

— Michael Connelly

Too often we take notes on writing, we think about writing but never do it. I want you to walk into the heart of…

— Natalie Goldberg

Write regularly, whether you feel like writing or not, and whether you think what you're writing is any good or not.

— Anne Lamott

It is in this matter that I fall foul of so many American writers on writing; they seem to think that writing is a…

— Robertson Davies

Writing I think, out of what all of us do, writing is the hardest. You're the only who start with nothing except what's up…

— Morgan Freeman

Writing organizes and clarifies our thoughts. Writing is how we think our way into a subject and make it our own. Writing enables us…

— William Zinsser

At times of writing I never think what I have said before. My aim is not to be consistent with my previous statements on…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Whenever someone says, 'I love writing,' I always think, 'You probably suck at writing.”

— Bob Odenkirk

I always thought that I was a terrible writer. And I started to write songs. And I started to like what I was writing.…

— Marion Cotillard

For me, as a writer, I desperately want to be read. I'm very conscious of readers as I'm writing. I think, 'If you write…

— Matt Haig