I am of the firm opinion that no one should tell writers…

I'm not proselytizing my method. I don't believe that one writer should tell other writers how to write.

— John Irving

“Even if, at the moment, you can't sit down and do the gruntwork of stringing verbs and nouns together, you are writing. It is…

— Luis Alberto Urrea

There is something to be said when you have great writers, and they write, and they write.

— Jamie Hector

“How the excitement comes upon me to tell it all! In the quest of writing, the heart can speed up with anticipation--as it does,…

— Sena Jeter Naslund

And you can tell the writers who do it - Robert Stone, for example, who with each new novel is doing something new. I…

— Tobias Wolff

“I tell writers not to think about writing short stories or novels. Just write one good scene. And then a novel becomes a bunch…

— Joe Hill

You know how sometimes you meet writers that are so full of themselves? They feel really proud that they wrote something . But what…

— Sandra Cisneros

Publishers never tell writers anything. They're all crazy and they drive me crazy.

— Anne Bernays

As an editor, I must often tell writers that their stories "do not fit our present needs." But there are times when I want…

— Richard Conniff

I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection…

— Anita Diament

Most people say, "Show, don't tell," but I stand by Show and Tell, because when writers put their work out into the world, they're…

— Colson Whitehead

Accuracy first,” I used to tell the writers. “We must never lie by accident, or through slovenliness, only deliberately!

— Sefton Delmer

I'm an author. And writers write books. And writing books is a full-time career.

— Marianne Williamson

I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk.

— Gloria Steinem

There are all kinds of writers. The best writers write children's books.

— Richard Scarry