When I'm writing I can write anywhere; when I'm not…

“Write it. Just write it. Write it on receipts in the car while you wait for your kid to finish their piano lessons, scribble…

— Melodie Ramone

I write to invite the voices in, to watch the angel wrestle, to feel the devil gather on its haunches and rise. I write…

— Dorianne Laux

For heaven's sake, don't write writing. Write reading!

— Avi

Writers don't write writing, they write reading. When I was a kid, I read four or five books a week. And that is how…

— Avi

I think the first thing - if you want to be a writer - the first thing you need to do is write. Which…

— Cheryl Strayed

Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you.

— Richard Paul Evans

There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.

— Walter Becker

I learned to write by writing. I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it…

— Neil Gaiman

If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write. If you stop, start again. Save everything that you write. If…

— Anne Rice

My biggest problem about writing is whenever I write piano pieces, because I then have to learn to play them, which is sometimes not…

— Philip Glass

“It’s easier to start writing if you have something to write about, rather than staring at a blank screen thinking about nothing because you’re…

— Jarod Kintz

“It took me a long time to realise that there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes…

— Jeanette Winterson

“I suggested to her that she start writing. "I can't write at all," she said. "Neither can many bestsellers," I replied. "But that pesky…

— Jarod Kintz

“No thinking – that comes later. You write your first draft with your heart. You rewrite with your head. The first key to writing…

— Anonymous

“No, I am just writing this because, sometimes, you’re still all I have to write about. Sometimes you’re the only thing that my typewriter…

— Moriah Pearson