If We Write It They Will Come!

What is this you write- 'Come home? Surely now, in our terrible dearth of workers, it is not the time for any one to…

— Alexander Murdoch Mackay

You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go on from…

— Ernest Hemingway

“I will write: for myself, for those who come after, and for the voices that cry out not to be forgotten.”

— Stephen R. Lawhead

The number one reason I write is to come to schools and see my readers. I would do it for free.

— Frank Murphy

“Write it down and it will come alive.”

— Efrat Israeli

“When a day goes by and I haven't written anything, I better have been doing something worth writing about.”

— P.S. Bartlett

I write a lot, and then forget what I've written, and then come back to it and say, "Not bad, I should do something…

— Allison Joseph

Having a point to start is important. You know that when you decide to write something it's like a commitment. It's like falling in…

— Isabel Allende

I don't write for any particular kind of person.

— Mary Wesley

Writers…born not in the Halls of Education…but in the fires of necessity. Masters not of prose, form, language, or a perceived command of the…

— Vladislas Nikilovic

Kids, if anything, are harder to write for because they are a more discerning audience. They will not stay with you if you go…

— Rick Riordan

Some writers say they cannot write in front of a window; many say they cannot function without almost perfect quiet. A writer with only…

— Gene Wolfe

My writing routine is: get son off to school and sit down at 8 A.M. I read what I wrote the day before, and…

— Tracy Chevalier

“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and…

— Neil Gaiman

I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.

— Moliere