A writer is not so much someone who has something to say…

One Irrelevant thought, that started out as a Spark could be a Poisonous Dart that leaves a Permanent mark on that paper thin Heart .

— One-___-Strong

The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody - like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger - and I thought, 'That can be…

— Dwayne Johnson

I wasn't as nervous as I thought I would be when I started

— Todd Barry

A writer must say yes to life.

— Natalie Goldberg

“Harriet pushed her hair back and looked at him seriously. 'Sport, what are you going to be when you grow up?' 'You know what.…

— Louise Fitzhugh

To write with taste, in the highest sense, is to write [...] so that no one commits suicide, no one despairs; to write [...]…

— Anonymous

When people say, Did you always want to be a writer?, I have to say no! I always WAS a writer.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor to collaborate…

— James Thurber

The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most of the…

— Anais Nin

The highest compliment one can give a writer is not to say that one wholeheartedly agrees with his observations, but that he provoked -…

— Glenn Greenwald

For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the…

— Uma Thurman

“I recently heard a great writer say that an essential element in the life of a writer is to have been an outsider in…

— Elizabeth Lesser

I heard a white writer say, 'Oh, I'd never put black people in my writing, I'm afraid I would offend someone by doing it…

— Alice Mattison

I don't think the function of writing, at least for me as a fiction writer, is to say to people, "Here's the answer." It's…

— Mohsin Hamid

“The truth was much simpler. When do you become a writer? “When you say you are,” he said. I”

— Jeff Goins