I write for the love of writing, and to tell a story…

I couldn't write about love without writing about hate - specifically, how the experience of hatred embeds itself in the body and prevents love…

— Vivek Shraya

Write for the love of writing and you can't go wrong.

— Christopher Paul Curtis

When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away - even if it's…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Hemingway, whenever he was stuck in his writing, would tell himself to write one true thing. A true sentence. Then, he would write another.…

— Kamal Ravikant

When I write I try as far as possible to forget I'm writing it at all. I tell it down onto the page, as…

— Michael Morpurgo

I hate writing. I so intensely hate writing - I cannot tell you how much. The moment I am at the end of one…

— Slavoj Žižek

Kids think you just sit down and start writing. I always tell them you never do that.

— R. L. Stine

Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so…

— Joe Haldeman

When I teach writing, I always tell my students you should assume that the audience you're writing for is smarter than you. You can't…

— Tony Kushner

I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never…

— Randy Newman

When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“People ask me how to start writing. I tell them that 'Creating Creates Creativity'. Put your notes and outline aside. Start with one anecdote…

— Dick Sederquist

If I ever write a love song. I think I will write about you.

— Mee

I want to be able to write, that's my first love and I don't want to deviate from it even though I probably could…

— Robert Greene

I love writing fiction and can do it anywhere - I once even missed a flight because I was so engrossed.

— Prue Leith