The number of people writing poems is vast, and their…

A lot of people are writing poems and don't realize it. They have this limited idea of how the poem should sound or what…

— Matthea Harvey

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

— Anonymous

So research is a terribly imperfect science, and you learn an awful lot more after you've published a book, because people keep writing to…

— Simon Winchester

I Google McFly a lot, once a day, to see what people are writing.

— Tom Fletcher

The books people are writing today, they're too long. You get a little bit of plot, and then pages and pages of Creative Writing.…

— Douglas Adams

My problem is that people have been writing books about me.A lot of things that people write about you are incorrect, but you don't…

— Diana Ross

Don't you think that's the main reason people find [writing] so difficult? If they can write complete sentences and can use a dictionary, isn't…

— Kurt Vonnegut

A writers desire to write can only have come from previous experience of literature, and he'll start by imitating whatever he's read, which usually…

— Northrop Frye

Sometimes I see people writing the most ridiculous things about me.

— Rita Ora

With due apologies to Shakespeare, some people are born writers, some people achieve it after a lot of hard work, some people have a…

— Amish Tripathi

You get the best stuff when people are writing what they're really passionate about.

— Lesley Sharp

Listen, in England people are already writing their memoirs at the age of 23.

— Rupert Everett

Lyric writing is an interesting process in Sonic Youth. There's three people writing now, and we've all had a lot of interest and involvement…

— Thurston Moore

The literary world is filled with good and generous people. But then that's what writing is all about - empathy.

— Charles Bock

I've thrived on people writing me off. Because if you write me off, I'll shut you up.

— Andrew Flintoff