I'm not one of those writers who writes everyday.

Every writer writes in different ways, and so some write the music first, while others write the lyrics first, and some write while they…

— Valerie June

“A writer lives, at least, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the world lies…

— William Sansom

I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live.

— Anais Nin

Every musician writes about past relationships. And other than that, I can promise you, I have very little in common with Taylor Swift.

— Tom Odell

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

— Baron de Montesquieu

One writes not to be read but to breathe...one writes to think, to pray, to analyze. One writes to clear one's mind, to dissipate…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“One expert may be as good as another until one writes a book”

— Bernard Kelvin Clive

Everything a man writes about himself is instructive.

— John Glassco

I was one of the first people in the Palestinian world, in the late 1970s, to say that there is no military option, either…

— Edward Said

You know, as somebody who writes op-eds and appears on the television, I appreciate as well as anybody that... there is a limit to…

— John Bolton

“I think the wilderness is where things happen and no one writes about them. It is the place where there are no maps, no…

— J.M. McDermott

In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: 'No, no, no. You have to write…

— Isabel Allende

Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of…

— Harper Lee

He writes nothing whose writings are not read.

— Martial

I think anything that anyone writes thats any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.

— Stephen Adly Guirgis