Live first, write second.

“My advice to writers is this: Walk, talk, breathe, laugh, cry, fall, rise, fail, succeed, run, jump, love, hate, hide, seek, learn, work, play,…

— S. Alex Martin

I started trying to write when I was in second or third grade.

— Margaret Haddix

Writers…born not in the Halls of Education…but in the fires of necessity. Masters not of prose, form, language, or a perceived command of the…

— Vladislas Nikilovic

“If poetry is what you live for then do it write.”

— R.M. Engelhardt

There are so many fun things that you live that you can write about and people of all ages can connect to.

— Maren Morris

In my twenties, it was so important for me to show people I had all these other books and these other sorts of writing…

— Evelyn Lau

There are two voices: the first says write; the second hardly speaks, but I know what he wants. And if I let him, nothing…

— Hisham Matar

“You‘ve got your whole life to write your first book and six months to write the second one.”

— Richard Lawrence Belford

With the first novel, I had to tell myself, 'No one is ever going to read it, so you might as well just write…

— Celeste Ng

“Feel first, write second.”

— William Kenower

I remain convinced that the most valuable use of time for a newly published author is to write a second book that's even better…

— Suzanne Brockmann

All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.

— Bobby Knight

“Perhaps the hardest thing in all literature— at least I have found it so: by no voluntary effort can I accomplish it: I have…

— Lewis Carroll

“It's all mine, it's all sacred.”

— Jamie Weise

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

— Stephanie Lennox