I keep a journal, like many writers do. It helps in…

Sometimes reading other writers helps. You learn some little technique that turns out to be useful, or simply are reinspired by the amazing things…

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

Unhappy and unsettled childhood helps in writing.

— Ruskin Bond

“I choose to write because it's perfect for me. It's an escape, a place I can go to hide. It's a friend, when I…

— Alysha Speer

I write wherever I am. It helps that the writing process, for me, is a lone-wolf mission.

— Passenger

Being able to incorporate my language into songs is really cool. It's really cool to see that people are susceptible to it. It helps…

— Kali Uchis

I like a fine wine. Who can beat that? I don't think it helps writing; I think it's a hinderance. It helps numb you.

— Gavin Friday

One thing helps the other. My stand-up helps my writing; my writing helps my stand-up; my stand-up helps my acting. They're all interlocked.

— Charlie Murphy

I've always been good at talking about my feelings; that helps with writing songs.

— Anne-Marie

When you are writing the story of of your life never lend out your pen

— Anonymous

What I often do when I'm writing, if I can't find that story, I go out and I hunt for it.

— Lynn Nottage

I'm always writing. There is always a story brewing in my head.

— Mel Gibson

I won't usually just sit down to write. I'd have done it in my head already. I visualise a story just like a film…

— Ruskin Bond

The human race may be compared to a writer. At the outset a writer has often only a vague general notion of the plan…

— Felix Adler

“writing a story is dangerous more dangerous then anyone can know. Its planting small seeds of ideas into peoples minds. Some can grow and…

— Natalie Stein

When you're writing a story, you're creating something of an artificial ending.

— Mary Gaitskill