It's a wonderful thing to write. You can reclaim the…

If I wanted to change the world, the last thing I would do is write a play.

— Tom Stoppard

All work is a process of failure. Every single thing I write, I look at it and go, 'Do better. That's not good enough.…

— Abi Morgan

I like writing a lot more than I used to. I used to find it scary but now I've got used to it once…

— Victoria Wood

People think writing is a very distinguished, cerebral thing, where all you do is write. It doesn't work that way. People have to see…

— Ravi Subramanian

I wanted to take my writing to another level. I wanted to write stuff that was personal for real. It's one thing to write…

— Tove Styrke

“You would have to abandon the jig-saw kind of story and write a book about human beings for a change.’ ‘I’m afraid to try…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“The thing is not to write what no one else could have written, but to write what only you could have written.”

— Nam Le

Taking the question in general, I should say, in the case of many poets, that the most important thing for them to do ...…

— T. S. Eliot

Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Everything is possible again.” It was the perfect thing to write, because that was exactly how it felt. We could retell our stories and…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and a hermaphrodite.

— A. S. Byatt

Every writer has written a spec. It's the first thing you write, and it basically stands as a means of, 'Here's an example of…

— Taylor Sheridan

I get up when I feel like getting up. That's the deal I've made with myself: I can stay in bed as long as…

— Tara Westover

'It could be better' is the only thing that anyone should write in the margins of their own script.

— Ol Parker

The most important thing you can do is to write for yourself.

— Stephenie Meyer