Writers think with their soul and draft from their heart

“Write the draft from your heart!”

— Kathleen Ballantine Watson

Write your first draft with your heart. Rewrite with your head.

— Mike Rich

“You write your first draft with your heart, and you rewrite with your head.”

— James Ellison

I don't want actors to be writers. I think it's too much responsibility.

— Susanne Bier

Only bad writers think they're good.

— Harlan Coben

All writers, I think, are to one extent or another, damaged people. Writing is our way of repairing ourselves.

— Anonymous

I have learned to respect ideas, wherever they come from. Often they come from clients. Account executives often have big creative ideas, regardless of…

— Leo Burnett

There are some writers who are done when they finish a draft because they've thought it through beforehand. Whereas I'll finish a first draft…

— Heidi Julavits

“The quality of any author’s effort at personal writing and thematic commentary hinges upon the author’s intrinsic limitations, personal vantage point, and personal capacity…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“The sooner you finish procrastinating, the sooner you can get back to your art.”

— Stephanie Lennox

But I think writing should be a bit of a struggle. We're not writing things that are going to change the world in big…

— Evie Wyld

“This is our goal as writers, I think; to help others have this sense of--please forgive me--wonder, of seeing things anew, things that can…

— Anne Lamott

A lot of writers do think of their characters as living beings. I know that's the way people think. That's why I try to…

— Dennis Cooper

Well, the world has a million writers. One would think, then, that good thought would be as familiar as air and water, and the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm a critic. That means you are a writer. So, yes, you have to make yourself an authority on whatever subject it's going to…

— Gary Giddins