It's really important when we're writing our opinions to…

I think those women who get themselves to write essays, it's not an easy thing to do because as women, you're not encouraged to…

— Lynne Tillman

In prose, I think you sometimes have to write in very plain language, where every line may not seem to be so important, though…

— Grace Paley

I really think that reading is just as important as writing when you're trying to be a writer because it's the only apprenticeship we…

— John Green

Doing an experiment is not more important than writing.

— Edwin Boring

Not writing is as important as writing - go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in it, are.

— Veronica Roth

Music is an important part of my writing process.

— Peter James

One, something emotional has to be at stake. There has to be something important for me that I'm writing about. And then two, I…

— Edward Hirsch

I guess I have an aversion to writing about big events and heroic actions. The everyday has always seemed most important to me in…

— Stephen McCauley

I suppose that there are endeavors in which self-confidence is even more important than it is in writing -- tightrope walking comes immediately to…

— Calvin Trillin

There is nothing more important than writing well for the young, if literature is to have a continuance ... They will inherit the earth;…

— Jill Paton Walsh

I felt like you can write forever, but you have a short time to raise a family. And I think a family is a…

— Ken Kesey

From when I was a kid I wanted to write. It was so important to me that I was writing my own material.

— Emeli Sande

If anything in your life is more important than writing - anything at all - you should walk away now while you still can.…

— Terry Brooks

It was very important to me when I was writing 'Teaches of Peaches' that I didn't mention I was going through a bad breakup,…

— Peaches

It's very hard to articulate the things that are important about writing.

— Tim O'Brien