Why is it so painful to write about people who aren't…

I don't think I'd ever write anything that I don't also direct just because it's so hard and painful to write as it is.

— Cary Fukunaga

At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people tell me is a very painful book to read.…

— Jonathan Kozol

I used to say it was painful to write lyrics about myself and looking inward.

— Peter Frampton

I knew it would be painful to write a memoir.

— Jesmyn Ward

What is important to me is that when I write something, people listen to me. I provide my wisdom to people, whether they agree…

— Nouriel Roubini

I don't write for a particular audience. I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the self, and…

— August Wilson

A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.

— Baron de Montesquieu

Everybody won’t like everything you write. Some people won’t like anything you write. Get over it.

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

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

— Maren Morris

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

— Richard Paul Evans

For me, as a writer, I desperately want to be read. I'm very conscious of readers as I'm writing. I think, 'If you write…

— Matt Haig

“Please don't apologize for what you write. For some people your words will never be enough. If you write a female Jedi they’ll complain…

— Anonymous

Anyone can write. Some people can write a bit better than others; they're called authors. Then there are some who can write better than…

— Walter Moers

I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world…

— Philip K. Dick

“I said on the phone to my mother, “I think I’m going to write the story of the Burgess kids.” “It’s a good one,”…

— Elizabeth Strout