To write, one only needs a pen. Of course, by pen I mean…

A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.

— Anonymous

A poet needs a pen, a painter a brush, and a director an army.

— Orson Welles

I write for whoever needs to read it.

— Jacqueline Woodson

“Schiller needed the scent of apples rotting in his desk in order to write. I, too, have my needs.”

— John Kennedy Toole

I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right. If what comes out of it are stories, then it is…

— Etgar Keret

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

I'm not a person who would get up at 5 A.M. to write, but I could sacrifice my Friday night and just order in…

— Lauren Weisberger

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

I am a big outliner. For my adult book, 'The Visibles,' I did not outline, and it took me two years to write because…

— Sara Shepard

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

I wish that I had known back then that a mastery of process would lead to a product. Then I probably wouldn't have found…

— Elizabeth George

“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

At the very beginning, I was a page at Letterman, and I freelanced for any place that would let me write any word. I…

— Ben Schwartz