Writing is more than a gift. It is a struggle that blesses…

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

— Anne Lamott

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

— Cheryl Alleway

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

“Writing is a gift. To be good at your gift you need to keep writing.”

— Lisa Powell

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

— Richard Le Gallienne

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

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

To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say…

— Kingsley Amis

I love coming of age stories that have struggle.

— Aaron Paul

My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing…

— Wole Soyinka

I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.

— Moliere

I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,…

— Anna Quindlen

If I don't know who I'm writing for, I make it up and pick somebody I'm writing for. That's really the only way to…

— Craig Mazin

Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,…

— Ishmael Reed