Writing is a gift. To be good at your gift you need to…

I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world.

— Anne Lamott

“Writing is more than a gift. It is a struggle that blesses those who see it through to the end.”

— Nona King

You can't fake it. Bad writing is a gift.

— Richard Le Gallienne

I think it's important to remember that writing is a gift and our stories are gifts to ourselves and to the world and sometimes…

— Jacqueline Woodson

I've been thinking so much about writing as a gift to readers - and how newness of subject (place or topic or person) is…

— Leslie Jamison

“Writing is a gift to both the writer and the reader.”

— Cheryl Alleway

The reason I spend thousands of lifetime hours creating something 99 percent of which no one else is likely to ever read is that…

— Christina Baldwin

Try to think of writing as a gift - more complexly put: it is the curse and the cure.

— Julianna Baggott

I feel like you just need to keep writing until the writing itself just begins to take shape.

— Ed Westwick

I don't have any doubts that I need writing. I need it personally because this is the way I think.

— Alejandro Zambra

For me, writing is something that I need to do. If I'm not writing, I'm not happy.

— Crystal Hana Kim

In matters like writing and painting, a man does what he has to do - if he has to write, why then, he writes;…

— Malcolm Cowley

We need many more intrepid women who set out to expand both their and our concepts of the world. We need them in writing…

— Lesley Hazleton

That's what you need for your writing - to learn how to be present, learn how to be calm. So take that nap, do…

— Sandra Cisneros

“Writers need their writing; they need their imaginary worlds in order to find piece in, or make sense of, the real world.”

— Terry Brooks