We should write, above all, because we are writers…

“We should write because it is human nature to write. Writing claims our world. It makes it directly and specifically our own. We should…

— Julia Cameron

“To be a great Writer, Write what you know & Write what other writers wouldn't write about.”

— Maryann Gestwicki

Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters.

— A. Lee Martinez

Most actors can't write. Most writers can't act. Most comedians can't act. I can do all three, so why wouldn't I do that?

— Charlie Murphy

I love producing, writing. I rarely write with other writers unless I have a real great respect for them. Like Burt Bacharach, or Carole…

— Aretha Franklin

I have been fighting writing songs for a long time. People keep telling me I should write, and other writers have offered to write…

— Martina McBride

“Sometimes I think they are writers who do not write. That "writers write" is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I…

— Renata Adler

Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.

— Mignon McLaughlin

To read and to write. Some writers have to be told to write. They think their job is to meet agents and have experiences…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I ended up at fifty, over-the-hill, thinking I had no future. Finally, I realized that I had allowed myself to write less than I…

— Waldo Salt

“Writers write because they're writers. Because their imaginations boil up inside of them, waiting to overflow into the written word. Ordinary people have little…

— Brian A. McBride

“Writers write because they're writers.”

— Brian A. McBride

“It’s a great day to write a best-seller.”

— Buffy Andrews

To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say…

— Kingsley Amis

I write a lot, and then forget what I've written, and then come back to it and say, "Not bad, I should do something…

— Allison Joseph