Writers shouldn't take themselves too seriously; they are…

“Fiction writers shouldn't take themselves too seriously - we're just daydreamers who daydream better than most.”

— Flavia Idà

“How often do the poor daydream of a better life? Plenty, no doubt, and where does it get them? It is the poor who…

— Stephen Richards

“No daydreaming. No music, film, art, creative thinking or business.”

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

“Whenever He answers prayers, God usually prioritizes those by people who, instead of their mouths, have prayed with their hands and/or feet.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.

— Salman Rushdie

Writers shouldn't fall in love with their characters so much that they lose sight of what they're trying to accomplish. The idea is to…

— Stephen Coonts

In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.

— Salman Rushdie

“writers shouldn’t spend all their time doing what they don’t enjoy. Instead, they need to do what they love. They need to write.”

— Jeff Goins

Writers shouldn’t underestimate the difficulty of what they’re doing, and they should treat it with great seriousness. You’re doing something that really matters, you’re…

— David Guterson

Young writers shouldn't be afraid of striving to emulate their favorites. It's a good way to learn, as long as you move on from…

— Poppy Z. Brite

Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much…

— Steven Pinker

Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat…

— Simon Schama

I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,…

— John Flansburgh

I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African…

— Jesmyn Ward

When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad…

— Jesse Owens