The best life for a writer is the life which helps him…

What I really wanted was every kind of life, and the writer’s life seemed the most inclusive.

— Susan Sontag

I'm just going to write the best books I can.

— Michael Connelly

The best movies were about Love. The best stories were about Love. The best books were about Love. The best truth were told in…

— Terry Mark

The writer's life [is] full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet the work can quite easily…

— Julian Barnes

I think my experience as an actor helps me to write anything. It certainly helped me to write 'August Osage County.' It helps me…

— Tracy Letts

Writing poetry helps me to write my fiction; each thing helps the other.

— Sandra Cisneros

All experience helps when you write.

— Jerome Lawrence

I became a writer because I am the youngest of six children. I listen; I observe. I'm camouflaged as a moth. Mothers are unseen.…

— Samantha Hunt

I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what…

— Shelby Foote

Taking the higher ground can be difficult, so it really helps when you can write those feelings into a song.

— Bishop Briggs

“Writer's block isn't always a problem. It can be a process of writing that helps us write better.”

— Jennifer Hudson Taylor

It usually helps me write by reading - somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.

— Steven Wright

It helps to write as the character that I am trying to be, and try to journal every day as them. Once I've already…

— Brianna Hildebrand

It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear; about two of them nothing can…

— Winston Churchill

“Sometimes when one cannot stand the story or novel one is working on, it helps to write something else—a different story or novel, or…

— John Gardner